These African presidents, can be so greedy.
Tens of thousands of angry protesters have continued to demonstrate in the government center in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou despite moves by the country’s leadership to end the unrest.
The government of Burkina Faso collapsed on Thursday as demonstrators protesting President Blaise Compaoré’s plans to stay in office after 27 years surged through the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital, overrunning state broadcasters, setting fire to Parliament and burning the homes of the president’s relatives.
“In 1987, when Blaise Compaoré took office I was 17 years old,” said Hamidou Traore, a student in computer studies, who was one of around two dozen citizens of Burkina Faso protesting outside the country’s consulate in New York on Thursday. “I am now a father myself, and all this time, he has stayed in power. In fact my oldest daughter is now about to give birth to her own child — so we have had the same president for almost three generations.
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