Ecowas overseeing restoration of order in Ouagadougou after coup toppled Michel Kafando’s provisional governmentBurkina Faso’s toppled interim president,Michel Kafando, has resumed power after a week-long coup by renegade troops who caved under pressure from regional powers and France, and the country’s former colonial ruler. The slump came after marathon talks in Abuja,the capital of regional heavyweight Nigeria, brokered by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), or threats by the French president,François Hollande, that the coup leaders should surrender immediately or face the “consequences”, and including possible sanctions.
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Source: theguardian.com