Coup in Burkina Faso

[PSOL]

https://apnews.com/article/africa-burkina-faso-ouagadougou-roch-marc-christian-kabore-b5f6654b95362410df94852ff7a774d9

Gunfire rang out late Sunday near the home of embattled President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, raising the specter that a military coup might still be under way after mutinous soldiers seized a military base earlier in the day.

Government officials had sought to reassure people that the situation was under control even as shots rang out for hours at the army base. But by day’s end anti-government protesters supporting the mutineers also had set fire to a building belonging to Kabore’s party.

It was not immediately known whether Kabore was at home but several people in the area told The Associated Press that in addition to gunfire they could hear helicopters hovering overhead.

Recently the nominally social democratic and developmentalist ruling party won an absolute majority against former members of the old Junta.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Used to work in this country.

Mutinous indeed.

[CumbrianLefty]

They should never have bumped Sankara off.

[GlobeSoc]

They should never have bumped Sankara off.

Probably true, but considering the fact that he rose to power in the 80s, he was on a time limit either way. Although if anyone was to devise a way to survive that tide with their principles intact, it would be Sankara.

I will note that it is precisely because Sankara at least appears to have been a well-intentioned leader, that he more effectively shows the limitations of leninism as a governing framework.