Burkina Faso junta leader denies reports of army mutiny

Burkina Faso junta leader denies reports of army mutiny

Gunfire was heard close to the presidency, and a rocket shell fell near state-run RTB Television.

Burkina Faso junta leader denies reports of mutiny to establish new junta, says rocket launched at state media HQ was an accident - National Zero

Burkina Faso military junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore on Thursday denied reports that his troops were mutinying against his regime, which itself was established in a troop mutiny in September 2022, having replaced a previous junta led by Lt Col Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba that had been established after a January 2022 coup that overthrew the ostensibly democratically-elected President Roch Kabore, with Trarore assuring reporters everything’s …