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2022-10-01 Africa Subsaharan
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Burkina Faso: Army revolt ousts junta leader Damiba
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[DW] A group of soldiers have announced on state TV that President Paul-Henri Damiba has been removed from office. The apparent mutiny follows a January military coup that has left the West African nation in turmoil.
| The soldiers introduced Captain Ibrahim Traore as the West African nation's new strongman. |
A group of Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
army soldiers announced late Friday that they ousted junta leader Paul-Henri Damiba, who had himself come to power through a military coup.
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The soldiers introduced Captain Ibrahim Traore as the West African nation's new strongman.
"We have decided to take our responsibilities, driven by a single ideal — the restoration of security and integrity of our territory," the soldiers said.
"Our common ideal was betrayed by our leader in whom we had placed all our trust. Far from liberating the occupied territories, the once peaceful areas have come under terrorist control."
Traore said Burkina Faso's government and constitution had been dissolved.
A curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. was imposed.
Leaders of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), the political and economic union of fifteen countries in the region, condemned the coup on Friday.
The regional bloc said the coup came at an inopportune time since Burkina Faso was making progress towards returning to constitutional rule following the coup in January.
HOW DID THE LATEST COUP UNFOLD?
The statement came hours after heavy gunfire was heard around the capital Ouagadougou, sparking fears of a mutiny by members of the military.
Shots and a large blast were also heard around the presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta earlier Friday.
Hours before, Damiba had accused certain army units of creating a "confused situation."
A statement on the presidency's Facebook page added that discussions were ongoing to restore calm. Those discussions appear to have failed.
The AFP news agency cited government front man Lionel Bilgo as saying that the presence of soldiers on major roads was linked to an "internal crisis in the army."
Earlier Friday, state TV halted transmissions.
"It could be a coup d'etat ... or unrest within the army. It could also be that none of this works, that the current military government remains in power," Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel Regional Program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in neighboring Mali, told DW.
"Burkina Faso is in an even deeper crisis than many thought. Outside of the country's capital and second city, Bobo Dioulasso, the [security] situation is actually almost out of control," he added.
WHAT WAS THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN BURKINA FASO?
Friday's apparent coup comes eight months after the military junta seized power on January 24, overthrew President Roch Kabore, and dissolved the government.
At the time, Paul-Henri Damiba vowed to restore security after years of violence perpetrated by Islamist bully boyz linked to al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) gang. But attacks persist and the army is in disarray.
Last week, Damiba traveled to New York where he addressed the UN General Assembly as the country's coup leader-turned-president.
YEARS OF VIOLENCE
Thousands have been killed and about two million people have been displaced by fighting since 2015, when the insurgency spread to Burkina Faso.
More than 40% of the country, a former French colony, is currently outside government control.
Millions have fled their homes in fear of more raids by button men, who often descend on rural communities on cycle of violences, killing anyone they see.
The West African country, one of the world's poorest, has become the epicenter of the violence that began in neighboring Mali in 2012 but has since spread across the arid expanse of the Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
south of the Sahara Desert.
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