The Burkinabè police dispersed Saturday morning with tear gas several hundred people who wanted to demonstrate in Ouagadougou against the power during a rally banned by the town hall.
The riot police fired tear gas to prevent demonstrators from gathering at Place de la Nation, in the center of the Burkinabè capital, crisscrossed by an important security device and where all businesses were closed.
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"
The march is prohibited, disperse, go home
", launched a police officer to the demonstrators before the dispersion.
The gathering of demonstrators who wanted to denounce the "
inability
" of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré to face the jihadist violence ravaging Burkina Faso, had been banned by the town hall of Ouagadougou.
"
I invite you to take all the measures that you deem useful so that no illegal demonstration can take place on the municipal territory
" of Ouagadougou, asked the mayor Armand Beouindé, in a note addressed to the commanders of the gendarmerie, of the national and municipal police.
The November 27 Coalition, bringing together three civil society organizations, called on "
all Burkinabè to come out en masse
" on Saturday "
in a peaceful atmosphere, to denounce the growing insecurity and demand the departure of the Head of State
" , Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
Qualifying as "
very chaotic
" the situation in Burkina Faso "
marked by a tattered security
", the spokesman of the coalition, Moussa Konaté, announced that in addition to Ouagadougou, demonstrations were also planned in Bobo Dioulasso, second city of the countries, and other major cities.
“
We are in a context of insecurity that everyone denounces.
We should not undertake marches for which we do not really see the platform of demands,
”retorted Benewende Sankara, Minister of Housing, denouncing on behalf of the presidential majority“
inappropriate demonstrations
”.
Other civil society movements have called for standing out from these demonstrations so as "
not to be complicit with those who want to bring chaos to the country
".
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While anger grows in Burkina Faso, the government has "
decided to extend the suspension of mobile internet for a period of 96 hours from Wednesday
", throughout the national territory, after a previous interruption of four days for "
security reasons
".
Burkina Faso has been caught since 2015 in a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist armed groups, affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Attacks targeting civilians and soldiers are increasingly frequent and the vast majority concentrated in the north and east of the country.