Violent protests are currently taking place in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Two Moroccan women working for the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) are on the scene, in danger.
“We are hiding in a room in a hotel. We’re being evacuated, but they are looting and wrecking everything,” says Tbeur Nabila, in charge of the CNDH, contacted by Telquel.ma . Her voice is interrupted by shouts and thuds. It is impossible to know who is in the process of evacuating the two women. The conversation ends abruptly with “We hear shots, we must go.”. Accounts of Telquel.
Further, in an interview with Hespress, Samir, one of the Moroccans living in Ouagadougou revealed that the Moroccan community is living in fear especially in regards to the scope of vandalism and chaos that’s prevailing in Burkina Faso right now.
He carries on by criticizing the “neglect and indifference” of the Moroccan embassy in the capital city Ouagadougou who didn’t even bother to ask about the Moroccan community whereas other embassies have called on their respective citizens to protect them.
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.
Authorities have now imposed martial law, according to a communiqué from the presidential palace.NYT
