{"id":45170,"date":"2022-01-24T08:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T08:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mutinying-soldiers-detain-burkina-faso-president-kabore\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:48:41","slug":"mutinying-soldiers-detain-burkina-faso-president-kabore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mutinying-soldiers-detain-burkina-faso-president-kabore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutinying soldiers detain Burkina Faso President Kabore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shots were heard late Sunday near Kabore&#8217;s home after soldiers staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country&#8217;s military top brass and more resources for the battle against Islamist insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Residents also reported, they saw a helicopter above the the president&#8217;s home in the capital Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n<p>It followed gunfire earlier Sunday at several army bases, prompting fears of yet another coup in a volatile West African country prone to military takeovers.<\/p>\n<p>But the government quickly denied rumours of a putsch, and a list of demands presented by the rebellious troops made no mention of trying to oust Kabore, while emphasising the need for a better anti-jihadist strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want adequate resources for the battle&#8221; against Islamist extremists, a soldier from the Sangoule Lamizana base in Ouagadougou said in a voice recording received by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The disaffected soldiers also wanted top generals to be &#8220;replaced&#8221;, better care for wounded troops and more support for the families of soldiers killed in battle, the spokesman for the mutinous troops added in the anonymous recording.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40738 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/roch-marc-ch2c85-8d6e3.jpg\" alt=\"Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been arrested. Net Photo \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE: FRANCE 24 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots were heard late Sunday near Kabore&#8217;s home after soldiers staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country&#8217;s military top brass and more resources for the battle against Islamist insurgents. Residents also reported, they saw a helicopter above the the president&#8217;s home in the capital Ouagadougou. It followed gunfire earlier Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[244],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-france-24"],"bylines":[{"id":244,"name":"France 24","slug":"france-24","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":96}],"contributors":[{"id":244,"name":"France 24","slug":"france-24","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":96}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45170"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45170"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}