January 15, 2016
Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly
Around 20 people (click here) have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, according to the director of the university hospital who spoke to patients wounded in the attack.
"We have received around 15 wounded people. There are people with bullet wounds and people who are injured because of falls," said Robert Sangare, director of Ouagadougou's university hospital center....
Such a sweet little country and it has to be burdened with this mess. Damn bastards.
15 January 2016 By Pascaline Compaore
Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly
Around 20 people (click here) have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, according to the director of the university hospital who spoke to patients wounded in the attack.
"We have received around 15 wounded people. There are people with bullet wounds and people who are injured because of falls," said Robert Sangare, director of Ouagadougou's university hospital center....
Such a sweet little country and it has to be burdened with this mess. Damn bastards.
15 January 2016 By Pascaline Compaore
Following a troubled, (click here) 13-month transition period that culminated in a peaceful election on 29 November last year, Burkina Faso swore in Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as its new president on 29 December 2015.
As the new cabinet takes shape, the role of the military in the country's political and institutional landscape will be one of many challenges for the new authorities.
The military has been at the forefront of the Burkinabe political scene since 1966, when General Sangoulé Aboubacar Lamizana overthrew Maurice Yaméogo - the country's first president after independence. The 1966 coup d'état marked the beginning of military interference in the country's institutional sphere. Similar government takeovers took place in November 1980, November 1982, August 1983 and October 1987, when Captain Blaise Compaoré rose to power....
When I heard about the attack I was actually thinking about the country. There are militants in every country in the world and while more are able to cope with such violence, a little country such as Burkina Faso would not and now this.
I hadn't check to see if it is part of the African Union. (click here)
Burkino Faso is a suspended member of the AU along with the Central African Republic.
It was suspended over a coup. (click here) Sometimes a coup works out.
The country has a GDP of $11.58 billion. When hearing bout a coupe in Africa most of the time it surrounds an election. Either before because some group can't get their names on the ballot or afterward if they didn't win. They are precious people with strong feelings.
When I heard about the attack I was actually thinking about the country. There are militants in every country in the world and while more are able to cope with such violence, a little country such as Burkina Faso would not and now this.I hadn't check to see if it is part of the African Union. (click here)
Burkino Faso is a suspended member of the AU along with the Central African Republic.
It was suspended over a coup. (click here) Sometimes a coup works out.
The country has a GDP of $11.58 billion. When hearing bout a coupe in Africa most of the time it surrounds an election. Either before because some group can't get their names on the ballot or afterward if they didn't win. They are precious people with strong feelings.
...The latest coup was orchestrated by an elite army unit loyal to deposed president Blaise Compaore who claim that interim president Michel Kafando was excluding Compaore's supporters from the upcoming October 11 polls.
"All measures taken by those who took power by force in Burkina Faso are null and void," Uganda's AU ambassador Mull Katende said....
They do not deserve this violence.
The AU needs to consider sending soldiers with UN help. If nothing else to protect the other countries from spill over of the violence. Everyone knows how bad it can get.
They do not deserve this violence.
The AU needs to consider sending soldiers with UN help. If nothing else to protect the other countries from spill over of the violence. Everyone knows how bad it can get.
