The nation’s intelligence and security agencies reportedly prevented a coup attempt against Burkina Faso’s military rulers.
The military leaders of Burkina Faso said in a statement on Wednesday that army officers and others had intended to seize control and bring about “chaos” in the nation.
“Officers and other alleged actors involved in this attempt at destabilisation have been arrested and others are actively sought,” a spokesman for the ruling military Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement without providing details.
The statement claims that the most recent coup attempt took place on Tuesday.
The military government said it would seek to shed “all possible light on this plot” and that it regretted “that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature”.
The country’s military prosecutor later said that four people had been arrested and two were on the run. An investigation has been opened based on “credible allegations about a plot against state security implicating officers”, the prosecutor said.
The military prosecutor announced earlier this month that three soldiers had been detained and accused of plotting to overthrow Captain Ibrahim Traore’s military regime, which came to power in September 2022, eight months after the democratically elected President Roch Marc Kabore had been deposed by a prior military coup.
Following the military’s revelation of an attempt to overthrow it on Wednesday evening, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, seemed peaceful.
