West African leaders and their military chiefs are to travel to Burkina Faso to reinstate the country's interim leadership amid a standoff in the capital between an elite presidential guard behind a coup and the army. An emergency meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held in Abuja, Nigeria, decided that the leaders…
W African leaders to reinstate Burkina Faso's Kafando
The announcement came as the leader of the coup, General Gilbert Diendere, on Tuesday said he would abide by a deal reached with the mediators