He confirmed that Kafando had been removed, and that the National Transition Council, the equivalent of parliament, had been dissolved. Mamadou Bamba, appeared on television to make a statement on behalf of what he called the National Council for Democracy.īamba said it was necessary to “put an end” to the temporary government, which he said had deviated from the goals of the October revolt. On Thursday morning, the military spokesman, Lt. They also raided the newsroom of Radio Omega, a station that was central in reporting news of the 2014 uprising, forced the journalists to cut off the signal, and set their offices on fire. The crisis began Wednesday evening when members of the Presidential Security Regiment stormed a Cabinet meeting and seized the interim president, Michel Kafando, and the prime minister, Isaac Zida, along with other officials. Diendéré is a close ally of the former president, Blaise Compaoré, who was in power for 27 years until last fall. Gilbert Diendéré took control of the country, according to a military spokesman.
The coup was apparently led by allies of the country’s longtime ruler, who was toppled in October.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – Military officers overthrew the government of Burkina Faso on Thursday, plunging the West African country into chaos and violence.
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