Coup d’état in Burkina Faso: country suspended by African Union

The military took power on 24 January and placed in residence supervised President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

Le Monde with AFP

The African Union (AU) announced, Monday, January 31, the suspension of Burkina Faso of all its activities within the mainland, one week after the coup, including the country of Africa of the ‘West was theater.

“The Council decides (…) to suspend Burkina Faso’s participation in all AU activities up to the effective recovery of the constitutional order in the country,” said the Peace Council and Security, conflict and security issues within the AU.

Ouagadougou suspended by Cédao

The country had also been suspended on Friday, the instances of Cédéao, like other countries that have recently experienced a military coup, Guinea and Mali.

A delegation of Heads of the Cédao diplomacy was expected, Monday, in the capital of Burkina Faso, where she should talk to the members of the junta, in power for a week.

The military took power on 24 January and placed in residence supervised President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

As his Malian and Nigerian neighbors, Burkina Faso has been taken, since 2015, in a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist movements affiliated with Al-Qaida and the Islamic State Organization, which made at least 2,000 deaths and 1.4 million displaced people.

/Media reports.