Burkina Faso army captain coup d'etat

Gunfire in Burkina Faso sparks coup fears
Burkina Faso's junta urged for calm just before more gunfire was heard near his presidential palace. -EPA

Burkina Faso army Captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government and suspended the constitution and transitional charter, he said in a statement read on national television Friday evening.

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