Finally, Burkina Junta leader Damiba bows, agrees to step down – Mediators

 

 

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Burkina Faso’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has finally agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) report following mediation between Damiba and the new self-proclaimed leader, Ibrahim Traore, “Damiba himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences”, the religious and community leaders said in a statement.

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TNG had earlier on reported that Damiba was ousted because he couldn’t subdue terrorists that he vowed on taking over last January to neutralise.