Burkina Faso guards take hostage interim president and premier

‘Guards loyal to Burkina Faso’s toppled president Blaise Compaoré have taken hostage the country’s interim president, prime minister, and senior ministers, a move that has sparked broad international condemnation.

Soldiers from Compaoré’s powerful Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) “burst into the cabinet room at 2:30 p.m. and kidnapped the President of Burkina Faso Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Isaac Zida, and two ministers,” interim parliament speaker Cheriff Sy said in a statement on Wednesday.

The detained cabinet members are Public, Labor and Social Security Service Minister Augustin Loada and Housing and Urban Development Minister Réné Bagoro.’

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