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Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.

Police in riot gear stormed a rally in Burkina Faso on Tuesday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.

Opponents of President Roch Kabore, a three-party coalition dubbed the November 27 coalition, called for new protests on Saturday over the violence in West Africa, including al-Qaeda-linked militants that killed 49 people, military police and four civilians.

But some groups of government officials withdrew from the protests, declining, saying, “to be allied with those who want to push the country into chaos”.

The beaten two weeks ago near the northern town of Inata was a deadly terrorist group in Burkinabe that has been plagued since the insurgency began in 2015, and has provoked the anger of the French government and allied forces.

Since then, people have staged scattered demonstrations, as well as demonstrations in the city of Kaya prohibited this passage a French army marching on neighboring Niger for about a week.

On Saturday, police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.

Back on the sidewalks, protesters began building fences, burning tires, and rubbish.

Nicolas Haque of Al Jazeera said people were angry with the government because they no longer felt safe in their country.

“One and a half million people have fled their homes because of the violence in Burkina Faso and about 60 percent of them are children,” he said.

“Two thirds of the country is not in the hands of the government, or there is a war going on between the government and armed groups. [control of the areas], ”He added.

‘Inadequate’ leadership

One of the protesters, 28-year-old Fabrice Sawadogo, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that “after seven years of failing to protect the terrorists … it ‘s time to ask the government to go.”

“Unqualified” supervisors must “admit they have failed”, he said.

Public outrage at recent protests has angered government officials, who cut off mobile phones last week and refused to accept Saturday’s protests.

The UN special envoy to West Africa said on Thursday he was concerned about the situation in Burkina Faso and warned of any military coups, following the terrorist attacks in three neighboring countries last year.

Political instability has disrupted the fight against al-Qaeda-linked ISIS and ISIS (ISIS) terrorists, which continue in the West African region of the Sahel.

Groups linked to the two have plagued the waterless Sahel, killing nearly 2,000 people and evicting 1.4 million from their homes since 2015.

The November 14 attack saw hundreds of terrorists storm the Inata prison camp in the north of the country, killing 53 police officers and four others.