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Burkina Faso protest movements vowed to maintain their demands for President Roch Marc Christian Kabore to step down after police fired teargas to disperse a rally on Saturday.
Protesters gathered near the Place de la Nation in the centre of the capital, Ouagadougou, to call for Kabore’s departure, and for French troops to leave the country. France has about 5,000 troops battling insurgents across West Africa’s Sahel region, with a limited presence in Burkina Faso.
The president, who came to power on the back of the popular uprising that ousted longterm leader Blaise Compaore in 2014, is facing growing discontent with his government’s inability to tackle a sprawling extremist insurgency, along with accusations of corruption and bad governance. Kabore, 64, took to state TV in an attempt to calm tensions, promising reforms including a reorganisation of military leadership. A movement known as Save Burkina Faso said its protests would go ahead, despite authorities in capital declaring them illegal.