Posted on 01/24/2022 3:29:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Soldiers in the West African country of Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power following a mutiny over the civilian president's failure to contain an Islamist insurgency, AFP reports.
A junior officer announced the suspension of the constitution, the dissolution of the government and parliament, and the closure of the country's borders as of midnight Monday, reading from a statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
The officer said the new Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (MPSR) would re-establish "constitutional order" within a "reasonable time", adding that a nationwide nightly curfew would be enforced.
Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the military coup in Ouagadougou, welcoming soldiers, honking car horns and waving the national flag.
Earlier on Monday, African and Western powers denounced...
The United States also called for Kabore's release...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement he "strongly condemns any attempted takeover of government by the force of arms", calling events a "coup".
A government source had said Kabore was "exfiltrated" from his home late Sunday by his presidential guard "before the arrival of armed elements who fired on the vehicles of his convoy".
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Kabore, in power since 2015 and reelected in 2020, has faced rising public anger about the failure to stop the bloodshed in the country.
On Monday, the People's Movement for Progress ruling party said Kabore was the victim of an "aborted assassination attempt".
A government minister, who was not named, also survived an attempt on his life and the president's home was ransacked, it added.
The party said the presidential palace had been "encircled" by "a group of armed and masked men" and the national radio and television "occupied".
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Great movie with street sweeper shotguns
This sh___hole. Let them do their thang and do not send US troops to this hole.
Light years from Wakanda...:)
Walken is super versatile.
More likely France would send troops. They broke it, they bought it.
Yes, this is France’s problem. This was part of French West Africa, and they have been active in the recent past with the Foreign Legion in this region, don’t know about today.
I was born in Africa as a French citizen and I can’t keep up with all the new names. And it’s not just the old French colonies.
I remember back in the 1970’s, Upper Volta / Burkina Faso was deemed the poorest country in the entire world. That includes Haiti.
Well there goes my vacation 😞
The average IQ in Burkino Faso is 68.
Just saying.
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Yeah. Knock me over with a feather. Africa. Go figure.
“Upper Volta”
Is that from where John Travolta hails?
Take me back to Upper Volta
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These clowns need to change their name to Upper Bill Gates Volta. Apply for billions from the Gates Foundation for their new state of the art virus laboratory. Where gain of function is all that is studied and produced.
It’s Upper Volta you idiot! It seems that the Froggies were stupid enough to colonize it. I am sure that worked out great.
Saw your tagline.
There’s a new word: Scientism.
Scientism is a belief system masquerading as actual science. It requires faith, in that evidence itself can be refuted along any arbitrary basis that suits its adherents in the moment.
E.g. “Do you believe in Climate Change, or not?” This is something one who practices scientism might say. Doesn’t matter that the atomic weight of CO2 is 48 and O2 is 32, and that CO2, being heavier than air, cannot possibly be a greenhouse gas.
It has a priesthood, Scientism. The current Pope is Anthony Fauci, but he has many bishops working for him.
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