BREAKING: Burkina Faso Army Has Deposed President Christian Kabore And Dissolved The Government

BREAKING NEWS: Burkina Faso army says it has deposed President Kabore Mutinous. Soldiers say on state television that they have suspended the constitution and dissolved the government.

The announcement, signed on Monday by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and read by another officer on state television, said that the takeover had been carried out without violence and those detained were in a secure location.

The statement was made in the name of a previously unheard of entity - The Patriotic Movement for Safeguard & Restoration (MPSR), its French-language acronym.

“MPSR which includes all sections of the army has decided to end President Kabore’s post today,” it said.

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS, which already has suspended Mali and Guinea in the past 18 months over military takeovers, condemned what it called an attempted coup in Burkina Faso and said it held the military responsible for the physical well-being of President Kabore.

Captain Sidsore Kaber Ouedraogo said that the MPSR would work to establish a calendar “acceptable to everyone” for holding new elections without giving further details.

#BurkinaFaso #Kabore #MutinerieBurkina #Burkina_Faso #NewsCentralTV #AfricaFirst