Burkina Faso military junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore on Thursday denied reports that his troops were mutinying against his regime, which itself was established in a troop mutiny in September 2022, having replaced a previous junta led by Lt Col Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba that had been established after a January 2022 coup that overthrew the ostensibly democratically-elected President Roch Kabore, with Trarore assuring reporters everything’s cool between him and his men after as many as 100 were killed in fighting with Al-Qaeda linked militants, Reuters reports.
Trarore, who was speaking outside a state-run media TV studio in the capital city of Ouagadougou that had nearly been blown up by a missile last week, injuring three employees, assured reporters that the missile had been mistakenly fired by loyal troops who had been dispatched to protect the station’s employees after sporadic gunfire was heard in the vicinity. “It’s absolutely not the case. We are here. The incident happened while we were at the council of ministers,” Traore said about the gunfire, without explaining what the hell happened or who started shooting last Wednesday.