Traitors In Charge
General Gilbert Diendiere has been appointed the head of a military council that has taken power in Burkina Faso, making him the country’s new leader, a spokesperson for the presidential guard announces on national television.
Frontiers have been closed and a curfew imposed from 19:00 to 06:00.
Diendiere headed the presidential guard under president Blaise Compaore, who terrorised and plundered the West African country for 27 years until fleeing to Ivory Coast nearly a year ago.