
ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso following coup
ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso following a military coup that ousted President Roch Kabore on Monday.
ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso following a military coup that ousted President Roch Kabore on Monday; Aid agencies in Burkina Faso describe the insecurity crisis that has led to disenfranchised communities; Liberia's former defence minister is barred from the senate and has to go to jail instead; Resident President Olushambles is contemplating pastures new.
(Photo: A man buys a newspaper with the picture of Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba the leader of the mutiny and of the Patriotic Movement for the Protection and the Restauration (MPSR) in Ouagadougou. Credit: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)
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