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Paris calls on its nationals in Burkina Faso to avoid any travel after the coup of the last hours. President Kaboré was arrested by the military and finds himself prisoner with the head of parliament. The putschists have announced that they have taken power.
In a special flash from Burkina Faso television, at 6:25 p.m. Paris time, the putschists announced the dismissal of President Kaboré on Monday, January 24. The president is detained and the borders are closed. In the morning, near the palace of the head of state, the inhabitants discovered two vehicles of the presidential guard, bullet holes and a seat stained with blood.
From the first rumors of the coup, a crowd of young people rush in front of the barracks where the mutiny broke out. They express their fed up with the violence carried out by the jihadists in the north of the country. Today, the streets remained calm. The putschists pledged to restore constitutional order within a reasonable time. The European Union and the UN condemn the military coup.