Burkina Faso’s military leaders said the country’s security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday. It’s almost a year since the military leader and now interim President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, himself, seized power. In a statement read on television, the junta said unnamed military officers and others had …
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Many reports from local media in Burkina Faso and regional experts are pointing to a coup attempt. Heavy gunfire was reported near the main military camp in the capital Ouagadougou, and the state broadcaster, La Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina, has suspended transmission. There has been confusion amid the gunfire at …
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