The Lieutenant-Colonel of Burkina Faso Army, Emmanuel Zoungrana has been arrested by the national gendarmerie, according to Jeune Afrique.
The news had circulated for several hours, on social networks, on the arrest of a Burkinabe army officer, about an “attempted coup d’etat.”
According to the magazine, “for several months, Burkinabe authorities feared that the security context of the country would push some officers to attempt a coup”.
The 41-year-old Lieutenant- Colonel is suspected of having instigated an attempted coup.
Several other soldiers were reportedly arrested.
JA, General Barthélemy Aimé Simple, Minister of the Armed Forces, I decided.. that the authorities “will soon officially send a communication on this issue”.
