OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: Bursts of gunfire were heard early Tuesday in the center of the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou near an airbase, an AFP journalist said.
The shots were heard from around 12:45 am (0045 GMT) in the city’s heart, 10 months after a coup, the second in less than a year in the West African country facing militant violence.
It was not immediately known what prompted the shooting.
Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in Burkina Faso in a September 30, 2022, coup that ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who in January that year had toppled the country’s last elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
The motive for both coups was anger at failures to stem a militant insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since spilling over from neighboring Mali in 2015. AFP/APP
