The Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, on Tuesday, approved a six-member delegation to Burkina Faso to monitor the restoration of all interim political structures in the country. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Desire Ouedraogo, made this known when he addressed journalists on the outcome of the extraordinary…
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