Military officers have ousted the president of Burkina Faso, a group of soldiers announced Monday on state television, after steering a 36-hour uprising that toppled the third West African head of state in eight months Photo Courtesy They have suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and closed the borders, Ouedraogo said, without spilling any blood. They are holding President Roch Marc Kaboré and other politicians in a safe place, he added, that “respects their dignity.” The words of Burkina Faso’s apparent new rulers contradicted Kaboré's party, which had asserted an hour earlier that the leader had survived an assassination attempt. Confusion abounded about the fate of Kaboré, who took office in 2015 and faced Islamist insurgencies that only grew during his tenure, leading to thousands of deaths and leaving more than a million people homeless. As regional leaders called for his release, Kaboré — or someone running his official Twitter account — ...
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