Following days of political turmoil in Burkina Faso caused by a coup d’etat by the elite President Guards (RSP), ECOWAS heads of state yesterday meeting in an extraordinary summit in Abuja, Nigeria, ordered the restoration to power of Burkina Faso’s Interim President, Michel Kafondo, and called for peace, open-mindedness and a spirit of compromise by all…
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