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Omaha Steve

(99,054 posts)
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 08:14 AM Jan 2022

Heavy gunfire reported at Burkina Faso military base

Source: AP

By SAM MEDNICK

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out at a military base in Burkina Faso’s capital early Sunday, prompting fears that a coup attempt was underway after weeks of growing frustration with the government’s handling of the Islamic insurgency wracking the country.

The government put out a statement acknowledging gunfire in army barracks but denying an army takeover of the country. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has not been detained, according to Defense Minister Aime Barthelemy Simpore.

State broadcaster RTB carried a news headline describing the gunfire as “acts of discontent by soldiers.”

“The military hierarchy is working to restore calm and serenity in the barracks,” it read. “Contrary to some information, no institution of the republic has been targeted.”



Protestors take to the streets of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Saturday Jan. 22, 2022, 27, 2021, protesting the government's inability to stop jihadist attacks spreading across the country and calling for President Roch Marc Christian Kabore to resign. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/africa-burkina-faso-ouagadougou-roch-marc-christian-kabore-b5f6654b95362410df94852ff7a774d9

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Heavy gunfire reported at Burkina Faso military base (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2022 OP
I had to look that country up Polybius Jan 2022 #1
I was half asleep when I read the article PatSeg Jan 2022 #4
same here...... getagrip_already Jan 2022 #5
Top left corner Africa. Emile Jan 2022 #2
Inland country where the traditionally Muslim-dominated Sahara/Sahel meet Hortensis Jan 2022 #3
I know exactly where it is. marie999 Jan 2022 #6

getagrip_already

(14,225 posts)
5. same here......
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 12:27 PM
Jan 2022

heck, there are 350 towns in my state, many of which I've never heard of even though I've been almost everywhere.

It used to be called the upper volta, which I vaguely remember hearing about at some point......

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Inland country where the traditionally Muslim-dominated Sahara/Sahel meet
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 09:29 AM
Jan 2022

the Christian-dominated regions to the south. About half of Africa is Christian dominated, but this whole band across Africa is involved in major religious/ethnic warring for control as Islam has been spreading south. Millions of people have been displaced by Muslim jihadist and separatist attacks.

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