Uniformed soldiers announced Monday on Burkinabe public television that they had seized power in the country and ousted President Kaboré.
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French President Emmanuel Macron condemned, on Tuesday, January 25, the coup d’etat in Burkina Faso, where soldiers announced that they had ousted the head of state Roch Marc Christian Kaboré from power. The head of stateresponding to journalists in the small town of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), stressed that the Burkinabé president “had been democratically elected by his people twice”.
“I have had initial discussions with the leaders of the region, I will have some in the coming days.said Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of a trip to Limousin. Very clearly, as always, we are on the side of the regional organization that is ECOWAS [Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest] to condemn this military coup”.
Uniformed soldiers announced Monday on Burkinabe public television that they had seized power in the country and ousted President Kaboré, plunging into a new crisis this Sahelian country undermined by incessant jihadist attacks. The French president deplored a putsch which “is part of a succession of several military coups which are extremely worrying”.