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Coup leader in Burkina Faso, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba has sacked the country’s military chief as well as the head of the intelligence agency. The former army chief, Brig Gen Gilbert Ouedraogo, has been replaced by the coup leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba – who will also serve as the country’s …

In his first speech on Thursday, Burkina Faso’s new military leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba said that the country will return to constitutional order when conditions are right. “When the conditions are right, according to the deadline that our people will define in all sovereignty, I commit to a return …