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2022-10-02 Africa Subsaharan
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Captain Ibrahim Traore takes over the leadership of Burkina Faso in a second coup
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[Garowe] The military in 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...
under the command of Captain Ibrahim Traore last Friday evening took over the leadership of the country from Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba for failing to stem a jihadist insurgency.
Captain Traore led other military officers in seizing control of Burkina Faso on Friday evening. He claimed that Colonel Damiba has failed in restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they dismissed a junta leader who had himself come to power in a coup at the start of this year.
Captain Traore previously head the anti-jihadist special forces unit known as ’Cobra’ in the northern region of Kaya.
Currently, the tossed leader Colonel Damiba remained unknown.
The US said it was deeply concerned by the situation in Ouagadougou and encouraged its citizens to limit movements within the country. A statement State Department spokesperson called upon Captain Traore for a return to calm and restraint by all actors.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned in the strongest possible terms the seizure of power by force that has just taken place. ECOWAS called the latest coup "inappropriate" at a time when it said progress was being made for a return to constitutional order by July 1, 2024.
The French foreign ministry told its citizens in the city, believed to number between 4,000 and 5,000, to stay home.
In Brussels, the European Union
 ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
expressed "concern" at the events unfolding in the Burkina capital.
Earlier on Friday, Damiba's Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (MPSR) had said there was an ’internal crisis in the army’ prompting troop deployments in key areas of the capital. AFP journalists saw troops block several main roads and intersections in Ouagadougou, with soldiers also stationed outside the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
centre.
Government front man Lionel Bilgo had said the "crisis" concerned an army pay dispute, and that Damiba was taking part in negotiations.
During the morning, shots rang out in the Ouaga 2000 neighbourhood, which houses both the presidential and military junta headquarters.
"I heard heavy detonations around 4:30 am and now the roads around my home have been sealed off by military vehicles," a resident close to the presidential palace said.
State television was cut for several hours prior to the military announcement, broadcasting just a blank screen with the message "no video signal".
In the afternoon, an AFP journalist saw a group of several hundred people gather in a city square making a range of demands, including the departure of Damiba and the end of the French military presence.
By the evening the soldiers were still in place at key points of the city, and the streets were mostly deserted.
Burkina Faso's new self-declared leader Ibrahim Traore has accused the president he deposed in a military coup on Friday of plotting a counter attack, blaming him for the violence which continued on Saturday.
Traore said that ousted President Paul-Henri Damiba was responsible for the gunfire reported earlier in the day in the capital Ouagadougou. He added that Damiba has taken refuge at a French base.
"We have managed to calm the situation," Traore said.
The French foreign ministry denied the Burkinabe coup leader’s claims of any French involvement.
On Saturday afternoon there were still signs of violence in the capital Ouagadougou, despite a relative calm in the early hours of the day.
Gunshots in the city center were reported. Security forces drove around in a convoy, while helicopters hovered above. Military troops blocked some of the city's main roads, including the vicinity of the presidential palace.
The AFP news agency said that shops were soon to shut their doors after initially opening for business in the morning.
The French embassy advised its citizens to limit their movements, saying that "the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou." Frenchies in the country are believed to range between 4,000 and 5,000.
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