Burkina Faso: Coup d’etat, military says it has seized power and ousted president Roch Kabore
Burkina Faso’s army announced it took control of the country on Monday, deposing President Roch Kabore, dissolving the government and parliament, suspending the constitution and shuttering its borders.
An army officer, along with more than a dozen soldiers, made the announcement on state television in an address to the nation on Monday night.
Captain Sidsore Kader Ouedraogo declared that Kabore was ousted “given the ongoing degradation of the security situation” in Burkina Faso and the “incapacity of the government” to unite the population.
He made the statement as spokesperson for a previously unknown entity, the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, or MPSR, its French language acronym.