Soldiers seized control of Burkina Faso's state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, had been overthrown after only nine months in power.
More than a dozen soldiers seized control of Burkina Faso's state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, had been overthrown after only nine months in power.
Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Burkina Faso's president, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. "Faced by the continually worsening security situation, we the officers and junior officers of the national armed forces were motivated to take action with the desire to protect the security and integrity of our country," said the statement read by the junta spokesman, Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho.
Constantin Gouvy, Burkina Faso researcher at Clingendael, said Friday night's events"follow escalating tensions within the ruling MPSR junta and the wider army about strategic and operational decisions to tackle spiraling insecurity." On the streets of Ouagadougou, some people already were showing support Friday for the change in leadership even before the putschists took to the state airwaves.
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