‘We want to inform the population that the situation is under control and order is being restored,’ Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader says
Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said on Sunday that order was being restored in the country, after violent protests against the French embassy and days of fighting as his faction moved to topple the government.
“We want to inform the population that the situation is under control and order is being restored,” an army officer said in a statement broadcast on national television. Traore, an army captain, stood beside the officer and was flanked by other armed and masked soldiers. Damiba himself led a coup earlier this year against a civilian government that had lost support over rising violence by Islamist extremists. Damiba’s failure to stop attacks by the militant groups had led to anger in the ranks of the armed forces in the former French-protectorate.
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