{"id":153776,"date":"2015-09-22T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=153776"},"modified":"2015-09-22T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:12:15","slug":"burkina-army-coup-leaders-must-surrender-or-face-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=153776","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Army: Coup leaders must surrender or face attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Troops loyal to Burkina Faso&#8217;s interim government told soldiers behind a<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/21\/burkina-faso-coup-junta-insists-on-staying-on\/\" target=\"_blank\"> coup<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>to disarm and surrender by 10 a.m. on Tuesday or face attack, a senior loyalist officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soldiers opposed to the rebellion, which was led by ex-spy chief General Gilbert Diendere and the presidential guard, left military bases across the West African nation and converged on the capital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They entered parts of the city overnight, and loyalists said the elite presidential guard, which numbers around 1,200 soldiers, had begun negotiations on the conditions of its surrender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;h8VnIPxH0LSnqCc1C8XHA1zmIe1jFY0z&#8221;]&#8221;They have until 10 a.m. to lay down their weapons and surrender at the Camp Sangoule Lamizana,&#8221; the loyalist officer said, referring to a military barracks west of the capital, Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coup derailed a delicate peace process in Burkina Faso, which had been preparing to head to polls on Oct. 11 for a vote aimed at restoring democracy after last year&#8217;s overthrow of long time leader Blaise Compaore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heads of state from West Africa&#8217;s regional bloc, ECOWAS, were due to meet in Nigeria&#8217;s capital Abuja on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nCredit: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops loyal to Burkina Faso&#8217;s interim government told soldiers behind a coup to disarm and surrender by 10 a.m. on Tuesday or face attack, a senior loyalist officer said. Soldiers opposed to the rebellion, which was led by ex-spy chief General Gilbert Diendere and the presidential guard, left military bases across the West African nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":153777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-153776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}