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In Burkina Faso, an ECOWAS fact-finding mission visited Ouagadougou on Tuesday, October 4. She met with customary and religious leaders, who mediated to avoid a confrontation between the soldiers. The other meeting was held with Captain Ibrahim Traoré on the continuation of the transition process for a return to normal constitutional order.
With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani
Following the calls to demonstrate and the barricades erected by the demonstrators reassembled once morest ECOWAS, the various meetings were held at the international airport of Ouagadougou.
The risks of clashes within the army were very acute. If these clashes had taken place, the army would have split […]insecurity would have worsened, chaos would have set in “. This is the analysis of the former Nigerien president Issoufou to salute the mediation of traditional and religious leaders following the coup that took place at the end of last week. They played ” an important and decisive role for a way out of the crisis “, he acknowledged.
According to Mahamadou Issoufou, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has confirmed the continued implementation of the July 2022 agreement. Among other elements of this agreement, the transition missions which relate to the reconquest of territory outside the control of the State, the resolution of the humanitarian crisis and the return to democratic order.
Mahamadou Issoufou says he is totally satisfied with this interview with the new strongman of Burkina Faso. “ We are leaving confident and I can assure you that ECOWAS will continue to support the people of Burkina Faso in this very difficult ordeal they are going through. “, concluded the ECOWAS facilitator.
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