{"id":892,"date":"2014-10-31T06:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=892"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:34:24","slug":"burkina-faso-president-refuses-to-step-down-africa-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso president refuses to step down &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/10\/burkina-faso-president-refuses-step-down-201410312021512407.html\">Burkina Faso president refuses to step down &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso&#8217;s president has refused to resign in the face of violent protests that posed the greatest threat yet to his 27-year rule, saying instead he will lead a transitional government after parliament is dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters stormed the parliament building in the capital city of Ougadougou on Thursday and set part of it ablaze in a day of violence around the country aimed at stopping a parliamentary vote that would have allowed President Blaise Compaore to seek a fifth term in office.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">In a concession to the protesters, the government withdrew the bill from consideration. But the move did not calm protesters, and General Honore Traore, the army&#8217;s joint chief of staff, later announced that the government and parliament had been dissolved and a new, inclusive government would be named.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the General did not spell out who would lead the transitional government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso president refuses to step down &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Burkina Faso&#8217;s president has refused to resign in the face of violent protests that posed the greatest threat yet to his 27-year rule, saying instead he will lead a transitional government after parliament is dissolved. Protesters stormed the parliament building in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[82,97,526,605],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-blaise-compaore","tag-burkina-faso","tag-military-coup","tag-ougadougou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}