{"id":214614,"date":"2022-01-25T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/uk-minister-for-africa-statement-on-burkina-faso?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-25T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:06:04","slug":"uk-minister-for-africa-statement-on-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uk-minister-for-africa-statement-on-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Minister for Africa statement on Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/cba7f0cc87f9209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/cba7f0cc87f9209\" alt=\"United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/cba7f0cc87f9209\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Africa Vicky Ford:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK condemns the coup d&rsquo;etat by military forces in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call for the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all members of the civilian government who have been detained, including the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kabor&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is vital that all parties remain calm and respect human rights, and for Burkina Faso to return to democratic civilian and constitutional rule without delay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dialogue between all parties is required to tackle insecurity across Burkina Faso, and respond to the needs of the Burkinabe people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK stands with our partners in addressing these developments, including ECOWAS, the African Union and the G5 Sahel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Minister for Africa Vicky Ford: &#8220;The UK condemns the coup d&rsquo;etat by military forces in Burkina Faso. &#8220;We call for the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all members of the civilian government who have been detained, including the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kabor&eacute;. &#8220;It is vital that all parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-214614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/uk-minister-for-africa-statement-on-burkina-faso.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}