BURKINA FASO

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• Just hours earlier, the African Union's 15-member Peace and Security Council announced that it had voted to suspend the participation of Burkina Faso in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country.
  
  
• On January 24, rebel soldiers detained president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and imposed army rule on the country.
  
  

Burkina Faso

• Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest.
  
  
• Its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou.