Burkina Faso President Back in Power
Voice of America
World News • September 2015 • Views: 887
Burkina Faso’s interim president Michel Kafando says he is back in power, exactly one week after he was detained by members of the presidential guard who staged a coup.
Kafando told reporters Wednesday that his government has been restored and he is resuming power “this very minute.”
Earlier Wednesday, members of the presidential guard agreed to return to their barracks in a deal made after the presidents of Senegal, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria traveled to the capital, Ouagadougou, to negotiate.