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Burkina Faso junta leader Damiba agrees to step down

Religious and community leaders said Sunday that Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power.

Following mediation between Damiba and the new coup leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, "Damiba himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences," the religious and community leaders announced in a statement.

Earlier, Traore said that order was being restored in the country following violent protests against the French embassy in Ouagadougou and days of clashes.

Security forces fired harmful tear gas at protesters outside the embassy, according to an AFP journalist.

Traore's side urged people to refrain from attacking the French embassy that was targeted after an officer involved in the coup revealed that France had sheltered Damiba at a French military base in the country and that he was planning a counteroffensive.

The French Foreign Ministry claimed the base had not hosted Damiba after his ouster on Friday. Damiba, which his whereabouts remain unknown, also denied he was at the French base, claiming that the reports were a deliberate manipulation of public opinion.

"We want to inform the population that the situation is under control and order is being restored," an army officer announced in a statement broadcast on national television.

"We invite you to continue with your activities and refrain from all acts of violence and vandalism… notably that against the French embassy and the French military base," the officer said.

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, was mostly calm on Sunday after sporadic gunfire throughout Saturday between opposing factions of the army.

On Friday, Traore announced that he led a coup against Damiba, dissolved the government, and suspended Burkina Faso's constitution and transitional charter.

Traore said a group of officers took the decision to topple Damiba over his inability to deal with the growing terror attacks in the country. The borders are currently closed indefinitely and all political and civil society activities have been suspended, he added.

This is the country's second military coup in eight months, with Damiba only assuming power in January after outsing former President Rock Kabore via a coup of his own in light of growing frustration over the state of the country's security.

On September 28, a convoy carrying supplies was attacked in the town of Djibo, leaving 11 soldiers killed and around 50 civilians missing.

It is noteworthy that more than 40% of the African nation, previously a French colony, is not under government control as most of the Sahel, including Niger and Mali, is suffering from the outcomes of the insurgency, which is beginning to spill over into the Ivory Coast and Togo.

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French embassy teargases protestors in Burkina Faso

Security forces fired harmful tear gas at protesters outside the French embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, according to an AFP journalist. France has previously occupied the country and ruled it with an iron fist while still intervening in its internal affairs to this day, ruining the lives of many.

Supporters of Burkina Faso's newest coup d'etat leader gathered outside the embassy one day after the leader accused the man he deposed of hiding in a French base, plotting a "counteroffensive."

French soldiers watched from the roof as protesters set fire to the barriers and threw rocks at the embassy.

On Friday, Burkinabe army Captain Ibrahim Traore announced that he led a coup against military leader Paul-Henri Damiba, dissolved the government and suspended Burkina Faso's constitution and transitional charter. Traore said a group of officers took the decision to topple Damiba over his inability to deal with the growing terror attacks in the country.

The borders are currently closed indefinitely and all political and civil society activities have been suspended, Traore added.

This is the country's second military coup in eight months, with Damiba only assuming power in January after outsing former President Rock Kabore via a coup of his own in light of growing frustration over the state of the country's security.

On September 28, a convoy carrying supplies was attacked in the town of Djibo, leaving 11 soldiers killed and around 50 civilians missing. More than 40% of the African nation, previously a French colony, is not under government control as most of the Sahel, including Niger and Mali, is suffering from the outcomes of the insurgency, which is beginning to spill over into the Ivory Coast and Togo.

Mali witnessed a large presence of French forces for nearly a decade, but French President Emmanuel Macron decided to withdraw his troops and the Malian military took over. The last French troops from Barkhane departed last month.

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DR Congo authorities report 14 casualties in militia attack

Local officials in eastern DR Congo reported on Sunday that fourteen civilians were killed "by machete" in an attack by local militias in Kyamata, in Ituri province's Banyali Tchabi chiefdom.

Jacques Anayey Bandingama, the head of a local youth group, said the suspected militia is the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an insurgent group that established ties with ISIS in 2018.

Bandingama added that among the victims included two others who were severely injured and that 36 homes in the village were set on fire.

The victims were later buried in a mass grave, according to Banyali Tchabi Chief Etienne Babanilau Tchabi.

"This attack threatens the return of my people," he told reporters. "My chiefdom is empty. Seventy percent of people are displaced."

For nearly four decades, the DRC has been enduring years of terrorist attacks from various terror organizations that emerged as legacies of previous wars.

With more than 120 terror groups across the region, the ADF figures among the most violent for its systematic and brutal attacks on civilians.

The movement has carried out several slaughters and bombing attacks in the East of the DRC, including in parts of Uganda where the borders of both countries cross.

The president of a cultural association in Banyali Tchabi, Faustin Mboma Babanilau, blamed the DR Congolese army for the lack of its presence in the area, adding that "in the office of the chiefdom, for example, there are only two soldiers," he said. "Go figure."

Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, a Congolese army spokesman, said, "Our services are on the ground and will be able to give us the final toll," he told reporters.

Despite efforts mobilized by the DRC and Uganda to launch a joint offensive against the ADF in November 2021, the terrorist organization persisted in its ongoing campaign of destruction and violence.

In order to stamp out the attacks coming from various terrorist organizations, the Congolese government decided last year to place both the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu under emergency administration called a "state of siege."

The process involved for the government to substitute senior civilian officials with members of the security forces. Despite this, attacks remained ongoing.

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Israeli media: Logistics shortage hinders IOF West Bank offensives

Israeli "State Comptroller" Matanyahu Englman, who paid a surprise visit to the “Kfir” Brigade’s training bases in the Jordan Valley and to the “Yakir” base in the occupied northern West Bank, said his visit comes as part of an audit of the living conditions of draft and reserve soldiers, during which logistical support issues that require "immediate handling" by the military, such as the living conditions, medical treatment, and food, were exposed.

According to Englman, the logistical coverage of regular soldiers and reserves in the West Bank must be improved, adding, "There is no reason why reservists cannot get food as required in the first week of their work in light of the delays of the operating forces."

At the "Kfir" base, Engleman exposed several deficiencies that need to be attended to by the IOF.

“It is not possible to accept a reality in which in a heat of over 40 degrees in the Jordan Valley, troops will not have basic drinking water that is not boiling, and will have to make do with ineffective air conditioners, some of which are not repaired due to a lack of budget,” he said.

At the medical level, Englman added in his report the issue of IOF troops having to wait for “many months” before they could see a doctor.

Englman also found that troops get a ration of one meat portion per day, which is, according to him, an “insufficient quantity”.

In a similar context, Major General (Reserve) in the IOF army and former commissioner of soldiers’ complaints, Yitzhak Brik, told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth earlier, “We are amid an existential threat. One of the most important challenges Israel is facing is the unpreparedness of the internal front which tends to be the focal point of the coming war and yet, it continues to suffer as a result of the Israeli army and government’s negligence, knowing that in any future war, it will be targeted with an average of 3,000 missiles per day and more than 100 sites inside Israel will be destroyed."

There is consensus among Israeli officials that the West Bank poses a great danger and challenge to the Israeli occupation.

Political affairs commentator for the Israeli broadcaster "Kan", Gilly Cohen, revealed that the Israeli occupation forces are "very concerned" about the growing frustration and volatile situation within Palestinian cities.

According to Cohen, the security leadership, from the army chiefs, through the head of Military Intelligence, to the head of the Shin Bet, have expressed extreme concern over the situation that is potentially explosive.

>> Not enough amo? Is it because the factories & storage were hit in last Gaza war? Are you counting your bullets?

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Very dasting.