The Foreign Ministry has recommended for Saturday, April 16 on its website to defer nonessential travel to Burkina Faso. "The situation in Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou and in particular, is currently marked by high tensions due to a movement claiming the military" in this country, says the site. The violence continued Saturday in the main market traders Ouagadougou, furious looting of military rebels since Thursday, were burned on Saturday the ruling party headquarters in the capital of Burkina Faso.
Hundreds of traders attacked the headquarters of the Congress for Democracy and Progress on the main artery of Ouagadougou, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, in the business district of the capital, before setting it on fire. Earlier, protesters ransacked the headquarters of the governorate of Ouagadougou and attacked the town hall where they broke the gate.
They then burned tires in several locations and erected barricades. A curfew was set Saturday in the capital, between 19 am and 6 pm local time. That anger came as traders the power of Burkina Faso, from February to face revolts multiple faces since Thursday for a new mutiny soldiers and members of the presidential guard.
Its elements have received the premiums they claimed their movement and arrested Friday. But other soldiers continue the protest. On the night of Friday to Saturday, the military barracks in Ouagadougou three took to the streets to shoot in the air and looting stores including electrical appliances and jewelry.
This mutiny led to the dissolution of the government headed by Tertius Zongo and the sacking of Chief of Defence Staff, General Dominique Djindjéré, replaced by Colonel-Major Honore Naber Traore. 
Hundreds of traders attacked the headquarters of the Congress for Democracy and Progress on the main artery of Ouagadougou, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, in the business district of the capital, before setting it on fire. Earlier, protesters ransacked the headquarters of the governorate of Ouagadougou and attacked the town hall where they broke the gate.
They then burned tires in several locations and erected barricades. A curfew was set Saturday in the capital, between 19 am and 6 pm local time. That anger came as traders the power of Burkina Faso, from February to face revolts multiple faces since Thursday for a new mutiny soldiers and members of the presidential guard.
Its elements have received the premiums they claimed their movement and arrested Friday. But other soldiers continue the protest. On the night of Friday to Saturday, the military barracks in Ouagadougou three took to the streets to shoot in the air and looting stores including electrical appliances and jewelry.
This mutiny led to the dissolution of the government headed by Tertius Zongo and the sacking of Chief of Defence Staff, General Dominique Djindjéré, replaced by Colonel-Major Honore Naber Traore.
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