Conflict, Chaos in Burkina Faso as head of the army announces curfew, dissolution of the National Assembly

Conflict, Chaos in Burkina Faso as head of the army announces curfew, dissolution of the National Assembly

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Conflict, Chaos in Burkina Faso as head of the army announces curfew, dissolution of the National Assembly and the establishment of a transitional government. He also announced that the October 30, 2014 vote on Article 37 of the

Constitution has been canceled.
“A transitional body will be put in place in consultation with all parties. A return to the constitutional order is expected in no more than 12 months,” General Honore Traore announced today.

Conflicting reports say Campaoré is striving to regain control by declaring a ‘state of emergency.’
Meanwhile, RFI is reporting that the Ouagadougou airport is closed. All flights departing from or arriving in the capital Bukinabè are canceled.

USAfricaonline.com notes that the votes and campaign on this issue of tenure elongation via Article 37 have

been cited as critical to the future of the country especially for the millions opposed to incumbent ex-soldier, Blaise Campaoré, who has remained president for 27 years.

He killed his friend, the former charismatic and beloved soldier Thomas Sankara. Sankara, a pan-Africanist, on August 4, 1984, renamed the country then known as Upper Volta to Burkina Faso — meaning the “Land of upright people” or “Land of honest people.”

The French-speaking country secured its nominal political independence — like Nigeria — in 1960.

By Chido Nwangwu Founder & Publisher of USAfrica and the first U.S-based, African-owned professional newspaper published on the internet USAfricaonline.com.

#Achebe USAfrica Founder Dr. Chido Nwangwu gets award for his works on#ThingsFallApart author Chinua Achebe from ASA-USA Dallas. Chido is completing the book on Mandela & Achebe: Footprints of Greatness. by Chido Nwangwu ISBN 978-0-9893970-0-1. www.MandelaAchebeChido.com

VIDEO of the CNN International broadcast/profile of USAfrica and CLASSmagazine Publisher Chido Nwangwu.   http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/07/29/mpa.african.media.bk.a.cnn  

 and friendship hold lessons for humanity and Africans, USAfrica Founder Chido Nwangwu takes a measure of their works and consequence to write that Mandela and Achebe have left “footprints of greatness.”

He chronicles, movingly, his 1998 reporting from the Robben Island jail room in South Africa where Mandela was held for decades through his 20 years of being close to Achebe. He moderated the 2012 Achebe Colloquium at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.“I’ll forever remember having walked inside and peeped through that historic Mandela jail cell (where he was held for most of his 27 years in unjust imprisonment) at the dreaded Robben Island, on March 27, 1998, alongside then Editor-in-chief of TIME magazine and later news chief executive of the CNN, Walter Isaacson (and others) when President Bill Clinton made his first official trip to South Africa and came to Robben Island. Come to this island of scourge and you will understand, in part, the simple greatness and towering grace of Nelson Mandela”, notes  Chido Nwangwu, award-winning writer, multimedia specialist and founder of USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned U.S-based newspaper published on the internet, in his first book; he writes movingly from his 1998 reporting from South Africa on Mandela. http://www.mandelaachebechido.com/

IF any of the Nigerian President’s 100 advisers has the polite courage for the extraordinary task of reminding His Excellency of his foremost, sworn, constitutional obligation to the national interest about security and safety of Nigerians and all who sojourn in Nigeria, please whisper clearly to Mr. President that I said, respectfully: Nigerians, at home and abroad, are still concerned and afraid for living in what I call Nigeria’s Federal Republic of Insecurity. FULL text of commentary, exclusively, at USAfricaonline.com https://usafricaonline.com/2011/12/17/nigeria-federal-republic-of-insecurity-by-chido-nwangwu/

USAfrica: BOKO HARAM’s latest killings sharpen divide for security team at Nigeria’s presidency. By Chido Nwangwu
https://usafricaonline.com/2013/10/21/usafrica-boko-harams-latest-killings-sharpen-divide-for-security-team-at-nigerias-presidency-by-chido-nwangwu/

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Dancing with “ghosts” of BOKO HARAM, President Jonathan, Sultan Abubakar and Nigeria’s national security. By Dr. Chido Nwangwu
https://usafricaonline.com/2013/04/05/dancing-with-ghosts-of-boko-haram-president-jonathan-sultan-abubakar-and-nigerias-national-security-by-chido-nwangwu/