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Burkina Faso junta lifts nationwide curfew in force since coup
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OUAGADOUGOU, 04 February 2022, (TON): The military announced “Burkina Faso’s junta lifted Wednesday a nationwide curfew they imposed after seizing power in a coup last month.”
The restrictions were imposed on January 24 after mutinous soldiers arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kabore following a revolt at several army barracks in the capital over the handling of jihadist attacks in the Sahel nation.
Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo said in a press release “the President of the Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration, President of Faso, Head of State, updates, the total lifting of the curfew measure as of this day, February 2.”
The junta said in a televised statement “the nation’s nightlife will not completely resume as “popular celebrations and festive events are prohibited after midnight from Monday to Thursday and after 2 am from Friday to Sunday.”
The coup leaders said the measure was taken “in view of the security context and in solidarity with the victims of insecurity.”
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