Gunfire rang out late Sunday near the home of the embattled president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, raising the spectre that a military coup might still be underway after mutinous soldiers seized a military base earlier in the day.
Government officials had sought to reassure people that the situation was under control, even as shots rang out for hours at the army base. But by day’s end, anti-government protesters supporting the mutineers had set fire to a building belonging to Kaboré’s party.
It was not immediately known whether Kaboré was at home, but several people in the area told The
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