Oct. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United Nations has shown its concern about the situation in Burkina Faso, after this Friday a group of soldiers from the Patriotic Movement for Salvation and Restoration (MPSR), led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, have led a coup d’état and deposed the Burkina Faso junta leader and transitional president of the country, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
In this sense, the organization has called for “calm” and to avoid “more violence”, assuring that Burkina Faso “needs peace, needs stability and needs unity to fight against terrorist groups and criminal networks that operate in some parts of the country”, as detailed in a statement.
“The UN stands in solidarity with the people of Burkina Faso and remains committed to the rapid return of the country to a constitutional order,” he added.
Among the reasons that have led to the coup d’état, the UN has pointed out that the country continues to face what it has described as “a multidimensional crisis”, since insecurity in the country is increasing.
However, the United Nations has stressed that almost a fifth of the national population urgently needs humanitarian aid and that 1.7 million people are displaced, ten percent of the country.
“Burkina Faso is facing one of the fastest growing displacement crises in the world in 2022. The other two are Mozambique and Ukraine,” the UN detailed in the letter.
The mobilization of soldiers has taken place after an explosion in the vicinity of the capital’s airport, while witnesses quoted by the magazine ‘Jeune Afrique’ have indicated that the shots have also been fired near the Presidential Palace and the Baba Sy base, headquarters of the transitional president.
The military, who have defended the coup in the face of the discontent that the country is experiencing due to the insecurity caused by jihadist terrorism, have announced on state television the suspension of the Transitional Government and the Constitution, according to the Burkina 24 news portal. .
