Anti-coup protesters stand next to burning tires in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 17, 2015. Reuters/Joe Penney At 7:30 a.m. Thursday, a soldier in military uniform announced the dissolution of the Burkina Faso government and of the national transition committee on national television.

The soldier stated that a National Democracy Committee (CND) headed by Gilbert Diendéré, the former chief of the army staff of Blaise Compaoré, and former head of the feared presidential guard would take power.

The CND, he read, has decided to “put an end to the deviant transitional regime, which diverged from the objectives of a consensual democracy.”

Moreover, that committee says they committed a “large concentration to form a government which will devote itself to the political reordering of the country and to the restoration of national cohesion to lead to inclusive and appeased elections.”

Throughout the day and into Thursday evening, members of the presidential guard patrolled the capital city Ouagadougou. But in a number of neighborhoods, young people were organizing protests.

“Soldiers driving around in four by fours would disperse any crowd of five to ten people they saw by firing into the air. The members of the “Balai citoyen” are specifically sought,” sahelien.com’s correspondent in Ouagadougou reported.

A resident of Ouagadougou's Patte d’Oie neighborhood, contacted by sahelien.com, confirmed that bullets passed through their courtyard yesterday night, and that around 8 p.m.ambulance sirens went off in the area.

"This morning it was calm at the monument of human rights, in the Patte d’Oie at sector 15 and at the market. Many businesses were closed, I bought what I could and I left. Shops were closed to prevent looting as during the revolution of October 2014,” said the resident.