On Monday 24 January, the foreign ministers of the EU27 discussed the worrying political situation in Burkina Faso, where the president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, has been arrested and is being held by rebels.
“We are following the development of the situation with great concern”, said the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting. He said he had spoken the previous day with the Burkinabe foreign minister, at which time “the...