Inverted by a putsch at the end of January and in residence monitored since then, the former head of state was able to return home, without knowing if he is free of his movements.
Le Monde and AFP
Former president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, overthrown by a Putsch at the end of January and in housed residence since, returned to Ouagadougou, found a reporter from AFP, Thursday, April 7, without He knows whether he is free from his movements. Wednesday night, a statement from the Government of Burkinabe indicated that after three weeks of “consultations”, Mr. Kaboré was going back to his home in the capital, adding that measures would be taken “to guarantee his security”.
Thursday morning, some soldiers surrounded his residence, where badadows were trying to see the former president, according to a journalist from the AFP on the spot. “We will see if you have the opportunity to visit him during the day and know if he has to observe movement restrictions,” AFP has indicated a framework for the movement of the people for progress (MPP), Mr. Kaboré’s party, met on the spot and preferring to keep anonymous.
Accused of not having been able to stem the jihadist violence that has been in Burkina Faso since 2015, Mr. Kaboré has been overthrown on January 24 by a military junta led by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, today chief of State. He had been placed since undergoing residence in Ouagadougou, in “increasingly hardened conditions”, according to the MPP, for whom they were restrained with “detention”. Its release was claimed by the Community of West African States (Cédéao), UN and the African Union.