The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended Burkina Faso from its functions on Friday, following the coup d'état perpetrated by the army last Monday, at an extraordinary virtual summit attended by the heads of state and government to analyze the situation.
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Burkina Faso's new military leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba said on Thursday that the West African country return to constitutional order when conditions are right. Damiba spoke for the first time on national television since leading a mutiny that ousted President Roch Marc Kabore on Monday.
In the latest in a string of military coups in West Africa, a group of army officers in Burkina Faso has overthrown the government of President Roch Kabore. Despite securing reelection comfortably in November 2020, Kabore proved unable to stem the tide of deadly Islamist attacks the country has experienced since 2015.
WASHINGTON - Reports that Russia is connected to this week's coup in Burkina Faso have made their way to the Pentagon, though U.S. defense officials