On Saturday 1 October the EU denounced the coup by which Burkinabe rebel officers removed from power the President of the transition in Burkina Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, himself the perpetrator of the military coup of 24 January that overthrew the democratically elected President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (see EUROPE B12877A13).
“The European Union denounces the new coup de force in Burkina Faso, which jeopardises the efforts made over several months, in...