A team from ECOWAS will be in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso today January 31, to assess the situation in the country. It comes a week after some military officers toppled the government of elected President Roch Kaboré.
The ECOWAS Ministerial-level mission will be joined by a UN delegation led by the head of the UN’s office for West Africa and the Sahel, Mahamat Saleh Annadif.
The joint team will hold talks with the Lt-Col Paul-Henri Damiba-led junta, as well as various Burkinabè actors.
An in-person ECOWAS summit is planned for on Thursday in Ghana for further deliberations on the situation.
Leaders of the regional body held a virtual emergency meeting on Friday, January 28, 2022 Chaired by Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, where Burkina Faso was suspended from ECOWAS.
BBC reports that there appears to be a troubling resurgence of coups in West Africa, with Burkina Faso being the third country after Mali and Guinea.
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