Burkino Faso: State of emergency declared.

Posted on October 30, 2014 by bill

Burkina Faso : état d’urgence décrété, le gouvernement dissous. Government dissolved.

EN DIRECT par Rédaction de France Info jeudi 30 octobre 2014

Les manifestants devant le bâtiment, incendié, de l’Assemblée nationale ce jeudi. © REUTERS/Joe Penney Demonstations before the government building, on fire, this Thursday.

Des manifestations violentes secouent le Burkina Faso depuis jeudi. Les opposants demandent la démission du président. Ce dernier a annoncé la dissolution du gouvernement et décrété l’état d’urgence.(Violent demonstrations broke out in Burkino Faso since Thursday. Opposition demands the resignation of the president Blaise Compaoré).

Selon le site Burkina 24 et plusieurs journalistes burkinabais, le chef d’Etat-major des armées du Burkina Faso a fait une déclaration dans laquelle il annonce la dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale et du gouvernement, la mise en place d’un organe transitoire pour assurer un retour à la normale. L’armée décrète aussi la mise en place d’un couvre-feu sur tout le territoire de 19h à 6h à compter de ce jeudi.

According to  website Burkino 24 and many local journalists, the head of the military has declared that the government is dissolved and a transition govt has been put in place to ensure normality can return. The army have also imposed a curfew between 19 and 06h from today.

l’Union européenne appelle à son tour à la fin des violences et au dialogue dans le pays. The European Union has called for an end to violence and a return to dialogue.

19h25 : la manifestation parisienne d’opposants au président Compaoré s’est achevée dans le calme ce jeudi. Ci-dessous, les photos de notre journaliste, Nathanaël Charbonnier.

Les manifestants devant l’ambassade du Burkina Faso à Paris ce jeudi. © Radio France / Jérôme Jadot Demonstrations before the Burkina Faso embassy in Paris calling for the president’s resignation.


Cette révolte populaire s’apparente à celle des printemps arabes. This popular revolt is similar to the arab spring.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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