Soldiers in Burkina Faso declared on state television that they had deposed the government, closed the borders and taken control of the country. President Kaboré has reportedly been arrested.
Mutinous soldiers in Burkina Faso declared on state television Monday that they had deposed the government, closed the borders, and taken control of the country. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has reportedly been arrested.This would be the third successful military coup in west Africa in eight months, after juntas took power last year in Guinea and in neighboring Mali.
Kaboré has struggled to combat an Islamist insurgency since taking power in 2015. Over 1 million people have been displaced by the fighting and at least 2,000 have been killed. Rebellious army officers issued a list of demands on Sunday, including more troops to fight the insurgency, new military and intelligence leadership and better treatment of the families of soldiers who are killed or wounded,Insecurity has fueled political instability across Africa's Sahel region over the past decade. That has accelerated over the past year.
A coup attempt was foiled last year in Niger. Meanwhile in Chad, President Idriss Déby was killed while commanding a military operation against insurgents. His army general son was installed as his successor.There were between zero and two coup attempts globally each year between 2015 and 2020, but that number jumped to a two-decade high of seven in 2021, according to research from Clayton Thyne of the University of Kentucky and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida.
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