Burkina Faso junta foils coup plot, second attempt this month
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Burkina Faso security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday, according to the country's military government
Burkina Faso security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday, according to the country’s military government.
Burkina Faso military rulers said in a statement on Wednesday that army officers and others had planned to seize power and plunge the country into “chaos”.
“Officers and other alleged actors involved in this attempt at destabilization have been arrested and others are actively sought,” a spokesman for the ruling military Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement without providing details.
The latest coup attempt occurred on Tuesday, according to the statement.
The military government said it would seek to shed “all possible light on this plot” and that it regretted “that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature”.
The country’s military prosecutor later said that four people had been arrested and two were on the run.
An investigation has been opened based on “credible allegations about a plot against state security implicating officers”, the prosecutor said.
It said the alleged perpetrators “had the sinister intention of attacking the institutions of the republic and plunging the country into chaos”.
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On Tuesday, hundreds of pro-junta demonstrators took to the streets of the capital, Ouagadougou, to show their support, citing rumours of a brewing mutiny against the authorities.
Junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power on September 30, 2022, in the landlocked country’s second coup in eight months.
The two takeovers were partially triggered by discontent at the failures to stem a raging militant insurgency.
Burkina Faso is one of a growing list of West African countries where the military has taken power, citing the failed promises of elected governments.
The country experienced its second coup in 2022 with soldiers ousting Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba about eight months after he helped overthrow democratically elected president Roch Marc Kabore early in the year.
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