Burkinabe junta frees interim President Kafando

Burkinabe junta frees interim President Kafando

Friday, September 18, 2015 2:06 pm

President Michel Kafando: freed

President Michel Kafando: freed

The head of a military junta in Burkina Faso which took power on Thursday has freed interim President Michel Kafando and two of his ministers, state television said on Friday.

“I confirm that President Kafando has been freed. He is in good health,” General Gilbert Diendere, the junta leader who for three decades was chief military adviser to long-time former President Blaise Compaore, told journalists.

He said interim Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida was under house arrest.

Protests against the coup d’etat in the capital of Ouagadougou have met with brute force and repression.

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