Burkina Faso has banned an anti-government protest planned for Saturday, two months after another rally turned violent.
Municipal Secretary Christian Charles Rouamba in a letter said the protest by a civil society movement called Sauvons le Burkina (Save Burkina), was banned for security reasons.
The same group had staged another banned protest in late November 2021 against the failure of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore’s government to stop attacks by armed groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) and al-Qaeda.
Many protesters defied the ban to take to Ouagadougou’s streets on November 27 and about a dozen people were injured in clashes with security forces.
A separate protest also planned for Saturday in support of neighbouring Mali, whose military government is under sanctions imposed by the regional bloc the Economic Community of African States, was also banned.
