Burkina president says back in charge as coup apparently ends - Reuters

OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso's President, Michel Kafando, said on Wednesday he was back in charge and would resume overseeing a transition to democracy, as a coup last week by soldiers in his personal guard who briefly took him hostage appeared to have ended.

Kafando addressed his supporters and West African leaders who flew to the capital of the West African state to negotiate an end to the putsch in which troops under General Gilbert Diendere briefly took power.

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