{"id":339896,"date":"2014-10-31T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=339896"},"modified":"2021-11-01T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:03:20","slug":"burkina-faso-general-takes-over-as-compaore-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/burkina-faso-general-takes-over-as-compaore-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso general takes over as Compaore resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">The first thing the top authority of Burkina Faso should do is ask Switzerland to block any bank account belonging to Blaise Compaor\u00e9 as he may have received a huge amount of money from the ex colonial master, France, to favor French neo colonial interests. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Burkina Faso&#8217;s President Blaise Compaore has announced his resignation following violent protests over his attempt to extend his 27-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Compaore issued a statement saying the presidency was now vacant and urging elections within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Army chief Gen Honore Traore said he had taken over, but it was not clear if he had the backing of all the military.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds danced and cheered in the capital, Ouagadougou, after Mr Compaore&#8217;s resignation was broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, protesters angry at his attempt to amend the constitution set fire to parliament and government buildings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-29851445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152834121904345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 The first thing the top authority of Burkina Faso should do is ask Switzerland to block any bank account belonging to Blaise Compaor\u00e9 as he may have received a huge amount of money from the ex colonial master, France, to favor French neo colonial interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":339950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}