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Africa Subsaharan

Pro-French coup fails in Burkina Faso

2023-09-29

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassaad] An armed coup attempt was foiled in Burkina Faso

Now it's official.

Yesterday evening there was a statement on behalf of the Transitional Government that from September 26th to 27th a coup attempt was prevented. The officers and others planned to destabilize the country with the “dark intention of attacking the institutions of the republic and plunging the country into chaos,” the appeal said.

Already that night, a statement from the military prosecutor's office was also published (see screenshot), announcing the start of an investigation and the arrest of four servicemen and the search for two more.
“The military prosecutor’s office invites anyone who can provide information that could help establish the truth to come and testify,” the communiqué says.

A version is being discussed on social networks in Burkina Faso that the people of Alassane Ouattara, the Ivorian leader and France’s closest ally on the Dark Continent, may be behind the coup attempt.

https://t.me/africanists/8932 - zinc

Having been defeated in Niger, France is trying to counterattack by supporting the attempted military coup in Burkina Faso, as well as supporting the Azawad separatists in Mali.The goal is simple - to destabilize the situation as much as possible in countries that have fallen out of the French sphere of influence and, if possible, to try to establish a pro-French government in at least one of the attacked countries. Typical behavior of a bankrupt colonialist who is already being asked to leave in plain text.

PS. By the way, in Mali, the local army, with the support of the Wagner PMC, broke the blockade of Timbuktu, which the Azawad separatists consider their capital. During the blockade, a humanitarian catastrophe broke out in the city.

By the way, recruitment to the Wagner PMC for Africa continues. It is worth noting that a large number of PMCs have again appeared near Artemovsk in the DPR. But this is no longer “Wagner”, but those who went with “Sedy” to the Redut PMC. Essentially, the same Wagner fighters, but in a different PMC. The backbone of “Wagner” is now in Belarus and Africa.

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#1 Mr. Austin had no comment.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-29 07:20

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