Hundreds march in Burkina Faso to show support for new junta

By SAM MEDNICK
Associated Press

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital in a show of support for the new military-led junta that ousted democratically elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and seized control of the country. Days of gunfire and uncertainty in the capital, Ouagadougou, ended Monday evening when more than a dozen soldiers on state media declared that their new movement, the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration, was in charge. The junta closed the borders, imposed a curfew, suspended the constitution and dissolved the government and the parliament and said it would return Burkina Faso to constitutional order, but did not specify when. Regional African leaders and international bodies condemned the military takeover.