{"id":410120,"date":"2022-01-25T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410120"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:02:14","slug":"soldiers-seize-power-after-mutiny-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/soldiers-seize-power-after-mutiny-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers seize power after mutiny in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">Soldiers in Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power in the West African country following a mutiny over the civilian president&#8217;s failure to contain an Islamist insurgency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">A junior officer announced the suspension of the constitution, the dissolution of the government and parliament, and the closure of the country&#8217;s borders from midnight Monday, reading from a statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">He said the new Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (MPSR) would re-establish &#8220;constitutional order&#8221; within a &#8220;reasonable time&#8221;, adding that a nationwide nightly curfew would be enforced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the military coup in Ouagadougou, welcoming soldiers, honking car horns and waving the national flag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers in Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power in the West African country following a mutiny over the civilian president&#8217;s failure to contain an Islamist insurgency. A junior officer announced the suspension of the constitution, the dissolution of the government and parliament, and the closure of the country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":410121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410122,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410120\/revisions\/410122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}