Ouagadougou: The Government of Burkina Faso denied that the army had controlled the country on Sunday after a shot exchanging occurred in several military barracks, including two in the capital.
“Information about social media will make people believe there is a military takeover,” said the alkassoum government spokesman Maiga in a statement.
“The government, while recognizing the shooting validity in several barracks, deny this information and call for a population to remain calm.” The shot came after a day after a clash between the police and demonstrators during the forbidden protest against the failure of the authorities to stem the violence of jihadists who destroyed the West African country.
It also followed the arrest earlier this month from various soldiers for alleged plots to “disrupt the institution” in the West African country, which has a long history of coup.
“Since 1 in the morning, a shot has been heard here in Gounhin coming from the Sangouze Lamizana camp,” said a soldier in the district on the western outskirts of Ouagadougou on Sunday.
Residents there also talked about “increasingly heavy fire”.
The shot was also heard in another military camp, Baby Sy, in the south of the capital, and at the air base near the airport, the military source said.
There was also a shot at the barracks in the northern cities rich and OuahGouya, residents there told AFP.
The Gunfire followed the country’s latest protest against unparalleled blood-blooded jihadists.
The police used tear gas to dissolve protesters in demonstrations throughout the country on Saturday, capturing dozens.
The authorities at the beginning of the week said they had forbid protests for security reasons.
Security sources reported that two soldiers were killed after their vehicle drove on an emergency bomb north of Saturday.
In rich, residents told AFP that the protesters had invaded the powerful party headquarters.
The group connected with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State Group has disturbed the country of Sahel which was locked in land since 2015, killing around 2,000 people, according to AFP calculations.
Attacks targeting civilians and soldiers have often increased – and most are concentrated in the north and the country of the country.
The violence of the jihadists in the past few years has forced around 1.5 million people to escape from their homes, said the national emergency agency, and many have settled in the area around rich.
On November 27, hundreds of demonstrations against the failure of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore to extinguish Jihadist’s violence, triggered clashes with security forces injuring dozens.
The protest came a few days after an ambush by alleged Jihadists targeting civilians and VDP, official defense forces, in the northern region you left 41 dead people, including Ladji Yoro, considered the VDP leader.
Among the soldiers arrested this month above the plot for “institutionalized institutions” were Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana, who had ordered anti-jihadist surgery in the severe western region of the country.