Following reports of gunfire in the early morning hours on Friday, a number of youths took to the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, a local news website Wakat Sera reported. Youths riding motorcycles were reportedly seen carrying the Russian and Burkina Faso flags, according to the story.
On Friday, September 30, “youths, claiming to be members of several civil society movements, invaded parts of the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital, demanding for a large mobilization for the total liberation of the national land” said the report.
The protesters are also said to have called for the resignation of interim President Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba as hundreds of people demonstrated on Thursday in the western city of Bobo Dioulasso. the report stated.
Lt-Col. Emmanuel Zoungrana, who has been held since the time of deposed President Roch Kabore’s rule, was demanded to be released by the protesters, who claimed that a “full-blown coup d’etat” had taken place.
Although a government official, speaking anonymously, said that there had been a coup attempt, the BBC has not been able to independently confirm this information .
The Islamist insurgency that the nation is dealing with is being blamed on him by the demonstrators for the country’s haphazard management of the security situation. Lt. Col. Zoungrana’s incarceration was connected to a mutiny that happened on January 23.
