The Burkina Faso decreed, Thursday, April 13, “the general mobilization” to face the security crisis that the country is going through, in the grip of a resurgence of terrorist attacks.
“It is above all through this decree to give a legal, legal framework to all the actions to be implemented to deal with the situation that Burkina Faso is experiencing”, specifies a press release from the presidency, published in the press release. outcome of the Council of Ministers.
“Faced with the security situation facing Burkina Faso, the salvation of the nation depends on a national outburst of all the daughters and sons in order to find a solution”, indicated the Minister of State, Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Colonel-Major Kassoum Coulibaly.
However, the precise contours of this mobilization have not been detailed.
“The general mobilization makes certain defense measures applicable throughout the territory. It entails a state of emergency in the parts of the territory concerned,” a high-ranking security source told AFP.
Territorial integrity threatened
The authorities also decreed the “warning” which, according to the security source, brings together a set of measures decided by the Head of State aimed at “ensuring the government’s freedom of action (…) and guaranteeing the security mobilization operations or the bringing into action of the armed forces”.
According to the law on the organization of national defence, “in the event of danger threatening security and territorial integrity, the security of institutions and that of populations, the Head of State may, in addition to the state of emergency, decree for all or part of the national territory : the warning, the state of emergency, the general mobilization”.
Burkina Faso, scene of two military coups in 2022, has been caught in a spiral of violence since 2015 appeared at Mali and at Niger a few years earlier and which has extended beyond their borders.
Last week, 44 civilians were killed in the attack on two villages northeast of the country near the Niger border.
The violence over the past seven years has caused more than 10 000 dead – civilians and soldiers – according to NGOs, and some two million displaced.
With AFP