Captain Sidsore Kader Ouedraogo, spokesman for the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration, announced that the army has taken control of the country in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on January 24, 2022. The officers blamed President Roch Kabore for failing to contain worsening violence by Islamist militants.
The MPSR's leader, Lieutenant Colonel Henri-Paul Damida, met members of Kabore's government on Wednesday, according to one of the ex-ministers present, who asked not to be named. The meetings come before a planned emergency summit of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States on Friday to discuss how to respond to the coup.
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