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France calls on its 4,000 nationals to exercise the greatest caution in Burkina Faso. Indeed, confusion reigns after a coup attempt. The putschists claim to detain the country’s president.
The presidential guard vehicle is riddled with bullets, just a few meters from the residence of the head of state. On television, soldiers claim to have arrested Kabore, President.
The mutiny began on Sunday January 23. Gunshots were heard across the country. A rebellion to denounce the impotence of the state in the face of the multiple attacks by jihadists which have killed more than 2,000 people in Burkina Faso. Anger had been rumbling since November last, but it’s assassination of 53 gendarmes who “caused a kind of uprising, not only within the army, but also among the people”, explains Anthony Glazer, founder of “The Letter from the Continent”. More 4,000 French currently residing in Burkina Faso
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