Burkina Faso faces fresh uncertainty after latest coup

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 02, 2022 12:01 am

OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty ON Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.

An uneasy calm permeated through the capital Ouagadougou, where soldiers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks guarded the national television center, but traffic slowly resumed on arterial roads.

The flags of Burkina Faso and Russia are waved in the air as young men assemble while soldiers are seen deployed in the capital Ouagadougou on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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