General Gilbert Diendere – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:30:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png General Gilbert Diendere – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 Burkina Faso Coup Leader charged with Crime against Humanity https://www.theinfostride.com/burkina-faso-coup-leader-charged-with-crime-against-humanity/ Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:30:49 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=102909 Burkina Faso’s army said that a general accused of leading a failed coup last month would be prosecuted on an array of charges, including “crime against humanity”. “Eleven charges have been filed” against General Gilbert Diendere, “notably crime against humanity”, Sita Sangare, the colonel in charge of military justice, told a press conference on Friday. Related: [...]

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]]> Burkina Faso Soldiers enter Ouagadougou to disarm Coup Leaders https://www.theinfostride.com/burkina-faso-soldiers-enter-ouagadougou-to-disarm-coup-leaders/ Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:34:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100424 Burkina Faso army have entered the capital Ouagadougou without resistance after coup leader General Gilbert Diendere said he would hand over power to a civilian transitional government. Army leaders also began surrender talks late on Monday with the elite presidential guard that staged the coup against the government last week. “All units [of the army mobilised [...]

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]]> Coup Leaders Free Detained Burkina Faso Prime Minister https://www.theinfostride.com/coup-leaders-free-detained-burkina-faso-prime-minister/ Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:28:24 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100426 Coup leaders have released the Burkina Faso prime minister, Yacouba Isaac Zida, from custody, Al Jazeera has learnt, as the army and the elite presidential guard continued surrender talks. The prime minister was detained alongside the country’s president and an unknown number of cabinet ministers last Wednesday by presidential guard soldiers who then installed General [...]

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]]> Burkina Faso to return to Civilian Rule after Military Coup https://www.theinfostride.com/burkina-faso-to-return-to-civilian-rule-after-military-coup/ Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:00:46 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100063 Burkina Faso will return to civilian rule and reinstate an interim government led by President Michel Kafando. The decision comes after Benin’s president Thomas Boni Yayi held talks with coup leader general Gilbert Diendere in the capital Ouagadougou. “We may hope again,” Boni Yayi said at a press conference after a third round of talks [...]

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]]> #Analysis > Why are coups common in Africa? https://www.theinfostride.com/africa-why-are-coups-common-in-africa/ Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:49:58 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/09/africa-why-are-coups-common-in-africa/ Burkina Faso’s military has overthrown the interim government in a coup that has plunged the capital city, Ouagadougou, into panic. It happened just three weeks before the country was due to hold general elections. General Gilbert Diendere has been declared the country’s new leader. Burkina Faso is not an exception in Africa. The continent has [...]

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