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Burkina Faso Coup Leader ‘In Custody’
Gen Gilbert Diendere – the leader of last month’s short-lived coup in Burkina Faso – is in the custody of the country’s security forces, sources say.
Some reports suggest he earlier surrendered at an unnamed diplomatic mission in the capital Ouagadougou.
Interim President Michel Kafando was reinstated last week after intervention from the army and West African leaders.
The presidential guards’ unit that carried out the coup is to be disbanded.
BBC
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Mujala
October 2, 2015 at 7:06 am
West African Generals work for the people and when see the country is being mismanaged, they swiftly intervene to salvage the situation unlike the Generals we have in Southern Africa who are businessmen and ba Nshima chabe.
Mujala
October 2, 2015 at 7:13 am
The Armies are there to preserve peace, defend sovereignity of the country from internal and external threats and ensure that democracy prevails.
Mailon
October 2, 2015 at 8:07 am
This must be the most useless General I have come across.After failing to overthrow the government he even apologised for what he called a mistake.
Chitutuma
October 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm
Power hunger in despotic military groupings in some West African countries-one wonders whether they correctly read world political trends that strongly indicate a movement away from coup detats, etc. SHAME ICI CILI SOLDIER!
mudenda
October 3, 2015 at 7:09 pm
they power hungry and do nt mind about deth
mudenda
October 3, 2015 at 7:10 pm
they ar power hungry and do nt mind about death