The military administration of Burkina Faso announced on Wednesday that it had thwarted a coup attempt the day before, almost a year after the country's leader took power in his coup.

A statement on national television stated that "Burkina Faso's intelligence and security agencies repelled a proven coup attempt on September 26, 2023.

Officers and other alleged participants in this destabilization attempt have currently been detained, and further people are actively being sought.


According to the report, those accused in the crimes "had the sinister intention of attacking the institutions of the Republic and bringing the nation to anarchy."

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On September 30, 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traore, the junta's leader, overthrew the government in the landlocked nation's second coup in as many months.

Dissatisfaction with failures to stop a rising jihadist insurgency contributed to both takeovers.

Following a demand from Traore supporters to "defend" him in the face of coup rumors on social media, thousands of people flocked to the streets of the nation's capital Ouagadougou late on Tuesday.


The military administration promised to explore "all possible light on this plot" in its statement.

"We regret that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature, which seeks to obstruct the Burkinabe people's march for sovereignty and complete liberation from the terrorist hordes trying to enslave them," the statement read.