The 2014 Burkinabé uprising broke out in late October 2014, eventually forcing Compaoré to resign and flee the country. Likewise forced to leave his position was Yéro Boly, Minister of Defence since 2004 and the Burkinabé ambassador to Libya between 1988 and 1995. On the first day of the uprising, a protester in Bobo Dioulasso pulled down a statue of Compaoré – notably leaving an adjacent statue of the Gaddafi, erected in the mid-1990s, intact.[9]