#englishnews #burkinafaso <br /><br />News Article :-<br />Burkina Faso's security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday, according to the country's military government.<br /><br />It alleged that officers and others had planned to destabilise the country and throw it into chaos.<br /><br />It has been just less than a year since the interim President Capt Ibrahim Traoré seized power.<br /><br />That was the country's second coup of 2022, which took place amid a growing Islamist insurgency.<br /><br />In a statement read out on television on Wednesday evening, the authorities said some arrests had been made and they were actively pursuing other suspects, without giving specific details.<br />It said the alleged perpetrators "had the sinister intention of attacking the institutions of the republic and plunging the country into chaos".<br /><br />Hours earlier, Capt Traoré had issued a statement saying he was "determined to safely lead the transition [to democracy] despite adversity and the various manoeuvres to stop our inexorable march towards assumed sovereignty".<br /><br />The junta has said elections will take place by July next year.<br /><br />On Tuesday, rumours of a brewing mutiny led hundreds of people to take to the streets of the capital, Ouagadougou, in support of the junta.<br /><br />On the same day, the authorities suspended the French-language news magazine Jeune Afrique, accusing it of publishing articles discrediting the armed forces.
