kabores physical wellbeingthe african union said its commission chief moussa faki mahamat strongly condemns the attempted coup detat against the democratically elected presidentfrance the former colonial power in burkina faso urged its citizens in the country to avoid any travel and said two air france flights scheduled for monday night had been cancelled french schools in the country would remain shut on monday and tuesday it addedup in armson sunday soldiers rose up at several army bases across burkina faso which has been fighting the islamist insurgency since 2015they demanded the removal of military top brass and more resources to fight insurgents but made no mention of seeking kabores ouster the insurgency which swept in from mali has overwhelmed burkinas poorly trained and badly equipped armed forcesmeanwhile demonstrators set fire to the headquarters of the ruling party police used tear gas to disperse banned protests on saturday arresting dozens mobile internet was cut the same dayfresh protests were staged on mondaythe president in power since 2015 and reelected in 2020 has faced rising public anger about the failure to stop the bloodshed in the poor landlocked countryearlier the ruling party urged loyalist security forces patriots and republicans to distance themselves from this umpteenth attempt at destabilisation and stand with the burkinabe people law and democracykabore has faced waves of protests in recent months amid frustration over killing of civilians and soldiers by militants some of whom have links to islamic state and al qaedasome of the anger was also directed against former colonial ruler france which has deployed thousands of soldiers in west africas sahel region to combat the militantsthe government declared a curfew from 2000 gmt to 0530 gmt until further notice and closed schools for two daysaround 2000 people have died according to an afp tally while around 15 million people are internally displaced according to the national emergency agency conasursplits have emerged in burkina fasos armed forces beforein 2015 an elite army unit arrested the interim president and prime minister of a transitional government that had been installed following the previous years uprising that ousted veteran leader blaise compaorebut forces loyal to the government then counterattacked overturning the coup in less than a week and allowing elections to go ahead later that year