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Army officials announced on state television that the military had taken power and dissolved the country's government. Burkina Faso's military seized power in a coup, hours after troops detained ...
The United States said it has cut and suspended assistance to Burkina Faso’s military but still supplies nonlethal equipment to civilian security forces such as the national police. In January ...
(Reuters) - At least six Burkina Faso magistrates have been conscripted to serve in the military this month for taking action against pro-junta activists and other individuals, three unions of ...
The military convoy set out with the task of supplying cities and military bases in eastern Burkina Faso besieged by jihadist groups. [4] The first group of soldiers, made up of Rapid Intervention Brigades 5 and 9 (BIR), left the city of Dori on April 27 and headed out towards Mansila . [ 5 ]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated in 2011–12 [needs update] that Burkina Faso had 6,400 personnel in L'Armée de Terre in three military regions, one tank battalion (two tank platoons), five infantry regiments that may be under-strength, and an airborne regiment. Artillery and engineer battalions are also listed.
Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been fighting Islamic State and al-Qaeda in some parts of the country. However, military personnel complained about a lack of military equipment and logistics. [ 17 ] This caused discontent among the military ranks, members of which criticized the government's lack of effort combating jihadist groups. [ 17 ]
More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta had seized control of Burkina Faso after detaining the democratically elected president following a ...
The Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (PMSR) [1] has been the ruling military junta of Burkina Faso since the January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état. [2] Originally it was led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, but he was overthrown by dissatisfied junta members during the September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état.