As Burkina Faso’s junta consolidates its place after seizing energy in a coup, we take a look at the new historical past of the bothered West African nation.
2014: Fall of Compaore
Blaise Compaore takes energy in a 1987 coup and cements his place 4 years later with the primary of 4 election victories. However his 2010 win is contested, as is his try to amend the charter to increase his rule. After being pressured out by way of side road protests in 2014, he flees to Ivory Coast. On November 29, 2015, former top minister Roch Marc Christian Kabore is elected president.
2015: Jihadist assaults
From 2015, the north of the rustic, the capital Ouagadougou and the east start to undergo assaults and kidnappings by way of jihadists affiliated to Al-Qaeda or the so-called Islamic State.
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On January 15, 2016, an assault at the Superb lodge and a cafe in Ouagadougou depart 30 useless, maximum of them Westerners, surprising the rustic.
In November 2017, the French-backed G5 anti-jihadist pressure begins joint cross-border operations in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
2018: Assaults accentuate
On March 2, 2018, simultaneous assaults goal French forces and the previous colonial energy’s embassy, leaving 8 squaddies useless and 85 other people injured.
The top of that 12 months sees a state of emergency declared in numerous provinces.
From 2019, the assaults change into virtually day-to-day, prompting the sacking of the pinnacle of the militia and formation of a brand new executive.
On December 24, 42 other people die in an assault by way of 200 jihadists on an army base in Arbinda, close to the border with Mali.
2020: Kabore re-elected
Kabore is re-elected on November 22, 2020, however lack of confidence manner loads of 1000’s of individuals are not able to vote.
The opposition accuse the president of election fraud and refuse to recognise the end result.
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2021: Demise toll soars
Between 132 and 160 individuals are killed in a June 2021 raid at the northeastern village of Solhan within the worst assault in six years.
The killings spark demonstrations in opposition to lack of confidence and the ministers of defence and safety are each fired.
On August 18, an assault within the north leaves 65 civilians and 15 police useless.
In October the president replaces the army leader of team of workers. An ordeal additionally starts into the killing 34 years previous of charismatic former president Thomas Sankara, the “African Che Guevara”. Compaore, the primary accused, isn’t provide.
On November 14, no less than 57 other people, 53 of them gendarmes, are massacred in an attack on a police station at Inata within the north, sparking additional protests.
Burkinabe and Niger army say they eradicated round 100 “terrorists” right through an operation on their not unusual border between November 25 and December 9.
Executive reshuffle
On December 8, the top minister resigns and arms the reins to Lassina Zerbo, who urges nationwide team spirit.
On December 23, 41 individuals are killed in but some other jihadist assault within the north.
The previous month sees an extra spate of assaults and rumblings of discontent within the ranks of the militia echoing the ones within the wider inhabitants.
2022: Army takeover
On January 22, police in Ouagadougou conflict with demonstrators at a banned protest over the federal government’s dealing with of the jihadist danger.
Tomorrow squaddies at a number of military barracks degree a rebellion however the executive denies a coup is beneath approach. On Monday, Kabore is arrested by way of mutinous squaddies after gunshots are heard close to his personal place of dwelling.
A gaggle of officials later move on tv to announce that the Patriotic Motion for Preservation and Recovery (MPSR) — the identify of a junta led by way of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba — is in keep watch over.
The United Countries, France and regional bloc ECOWAS all condemn the coup.
