Burkina Faso ruling party: president survived assassination attempt amid 'coup'

Reuters/Rooters ^ | January 24, 2022 | Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimault

[kiryandil]

OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's ruling party said on Monday President Roch Kabore had survived an assassination attempt, adding that what began as a mutiny by some soldiers on Sunday was rapidly evolving into a coup.

Kabore has not appeared in public since heavy gunfire erupted at military camps on Sunday, when soldiers demanded more support for their fight against Islamist militants. The government initially denied that the army had seized power...

[kiryandil]

Ruh-roh! Looks like someone is not hitting their vaxx target numbers...

[PGR88]

Hunter Biden is on the next flight over.

What does Burkina Faso have to sell that he can skim 10% from?

[ClearCase_guy]

But it wasn’t as terrible as our awful Insurrection, from which we may never recover.

[kiryandil]

December 2021 [Burkina Faso]

By the end of the month 1.05 million vaccine doses had been administered while 8% of the target population had been fully vaccinated.

[kiryandil]

I hear that Portland, Oregon is STILL burning after the actions of the January 6th fedsurrection...

[Red Badger]

Vowels..............................

[dfwgator]

OUAGADOUGOU

I would like to buy a vowel.

[blueunicorn6]

Ouagadougou…..

Or, Doug as the locals call it.

[I-ambush]

“Ouagadougou Ouagadougou Ouagadougou Ouagadougou “

Why did “Hooked on a Feeling” instantly pop into my head?

[Seruzawa]

Isn’t that the submarine dive alarm?

[Bigg Red]

I heard that it was the Death of Democracy.

[No name given]

And the George Floyd riots? Nothing from the media when the demokkkrats encouraged violence.

[pburiak]

Make Upper Volta great again