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As protesters in Ouagadougou, ECOWAS, expressed their support for the military on Tuesday morning in Ouagadougou, the UN and France reacted strongly to the overthrow of President Cabore.
Since Monday afternoon, the power of the Patriotic Movement for Defense and Reconstruction (MPSR) has been in his hands.
AFP
The military coup that ousted President Roche Marc Christian Capore in Burkina Faso was widely condemned by the international community on Tuesday as West African nations announced they would hold an extraordinary summit “in the coming days.”
“Unacceptable”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has ruled that military coups are “unacceptable” and called on soldiers in West Africa to “defend their country and not attack their governments.”
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has strongly condemned the “military coup”. Kapoor’s resignation “received under threat, intimidation and pressure from the military. Two days after the uprising.
French President Emmanuel Macron also “condemned” this “military coup.”
“I was told that his physical integrity was not threatened,” he said of Roche Cabore. Macron added that his whereabouts were unknown on Tuesday.
The G5 Sahel (Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad), a regional organization fighting terrorism, is currently headed by N’Djamena, and has strongly condemned the attempt to destabilize the constitutional order in Burkina Faso.
The Patriotic Movement for Defense and Reconstruction (MPSR) and its powerful Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henry Santago Damiba, commander of the 3rd Army Region, have been in power since Monday afternoon, especially in the eastern region. Most victims of jihadist attacks.
As president of Burkina Faso since 2015, President Cabore, who was re-elected in 2020, has vowed to make the anti-jihadi struggle his priority, increasingly competing with people outraged by jihadi violence and his inability to deal with it.
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of protesters marched on the Place de la Nation in central Ouagadougou in support of the military.
“We have on several occasions asked President Cabore to leave without listening to this call. The military has listened to us and understood us,” said Lassen Otroko, a 43-year-old activist and civil society activist.
“A Liberation”
“It simply came to our notice then. It’s a liberation for our country, led by incompetents, ”said Julian Troy, a 30-year-old teacher.
Some protesters waved Malian and Russian flags and called for cooperation with Moscow, which has been doing military rule in Bamako for months.
Apart from this demonstration, life in Ouagadougou seemed to have resumed its normal course: large markets, shops or gas stations were open without significant military presence, the AFP reporter noted.
The military junta announced the reopening of closed air borders from midnight on Tuesday. The news release read on national television that the land boundaries would be reopened only to “humanitarian” vehicles, “carrying basic necessities” and “equipment for security and security forces.”
The MPSR imposed a curfew from 9:00 pm to 5:00 am (local and GMT), dissolved the legislature and suspended the constitution, but promised “a reasonable time for the calendar to return to the constitutional order accepted by all.” ”.
Bringing peace to Burkina Faso will not be easy for the MPSR because the country has been mired in a hellish cycle of jihadi violence in recent years.
Most of its territory, especially in the east and north, is a scene of almost daily attacks by al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups.
The military, which has killed more than 2,000 people and forced at least 1.5 million people to flee their homes, is often targeted for drowning.
It remains to be seen what independence this military junta will have in the international arena.
Mali and Guinea, which experienced coups last year, were suspended from West African companies and subjected to severe sanctions by the Pamako regime ECOWAS.
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