Mutinies

Soldiers from Burkina Faso’s second largest military base took to the streets of the country’s economic capital on Tuesday night.

A wave of popular anger spread in Burkina Faso on Thursday as police followed the army in staging a mutiny.

The Bangladesh military on Tuesday launched its own probe into a savage mutiny by troops against their officers.

Troops fanned out across Bangladesh on Monday to hunt 1 000 fugitive soldiers blamed for a revolt by border guards that left 78 dead.

Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina has passed the first major test of her premiership in facing down a deadly mutiny by underpaid border guards.

Fresh gunfire erupted at a paramilitary camp in the Bangladesh capital on Thursday as troops took to streets in towns across the country.

Mutinies by members of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles have broken out in various towns around the country, police and witnesses said on Thursday.