Burkina Faso president promises military changes
Burkina Faso President Roch Kaboré as promised military and cabinet changes in the coming days.
It comes amid growing protests over the government’s response to militant attacks in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
Mr Kaboré said he would soon announce “imminent changes” within the military structure, and ordered the “active and effective” presence of military chiefs on the front line, in a late night state address on Thursday,
“Yes, I have understood your message, which invites us to a paradigm shift,” he said in response to the protests
A political coalition, dubbed 27 November coalition has called for mass protests on Saturday to demand the resignation of the president for failing to contain deadly militant attacks carried out by affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
The protests follow an escalation of attacks since the beginning of November, which have killed scores of security officers. The attacks have been blamed on jihadist groups.
On 14 November, 53 paramilitary officers and four civilians were killed during a raid on a camp in Inata in the north.
Mr Kaboré says that a report on the attack will be released on next Tuesday.
Meanwhile mobile internet services remain disrupted as the authorities try to contain the protests.
source: bbc
