OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s military regime said Wednesday it had thwarted a coup attempt on Tuesday, nearly a year following the African country’s leader came to power in a coup himself, Western media reported.
Burkina’s Military Regime Claims Foiled Coup Attempt
Burkina Faso’s intelligence and security services said in a statement that they had foiled a coup attempt on September 26. It added that several officials and alleged participants of the coup have been arrested.
It added the alleged committers “had the bad intention of assaulting the institutions of Burkina Faso and plunging the nation into disorder”.
Burkina Faso’s military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore took power on September 30, 2022, in the African country’s 2nd coup in 8 months.
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AFP reported that on Tuesday thousands of people took to the roads and streets of the country’s capital Ouagadougou after a call from Captain Ibrahim Traore supporters to “defend” him amid rumors of a coup on different social media.
The military rulers said it “regrets that officials whose oath is to defend their country have drifted into an undertaking of this nature, which aims to deter the Burkinabe people’s march for complete liberation and sovereignty from the terrorist groups trying to enslave them”.
