Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando, who was taken hostage during a coup a week ago, said he was back in power and had restored a civilian transitional government.

“I have returned to work,” he said in a brief speech to journalists at the foreign ministry in the capital on Wednesday. “The transition is back and at this very minute is exercising the power of the state.”

Burkina Faso coup leaders agreed to return to their barracks, signing a deal with the army that apparently defused the standoff sparked by last week’s coup.

The breakthrough came on Tuesday night after marathon talks in Nigeria’s Abuja, where West African heads of state had sought to break the impasse fuelled by angry threats on both sides.

The deal was signed a day after troops entered Burkina’s capital of Ouagadougou, turning up the pressure on the elite presidential guards, who staged the coup.

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Good move by ECOWAS leaders! Peace is what we need!

the coup plotter should have asked dogo yaro how it's been done.

Good move by the military who stormed the capital to put pressure on the coupists.

Way to go

That's more like. African problems African solution

PMB...sorting out Nigerian and the rest of west Africa.... ...Sai Baba

"Africa has come of age"- Gen Murtala Muhammed