BREAKING: Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore has stepped down from his post, after protestors took to the streets Thursday and Friday demanding his resignation. Face2Face Africa reports: On Thursday, Army Chief Gen. Honore Traore (pictured below) announced on behalf of President Compaore that he would not run for re-election in 2015 but would remain in his post and create a transitional government that would be put in place in consultation with all parties. Traore also announced that Parliament would be dissolved. But as the public gathered in the streets on Friday, with the energized declaration, Fulfill your responsibilities or we will do so ourselves, protestors demanded that the nearly three-decade President step down at once. And he did. Perhaps it was the burning of Parliament yesterday as government officials tried to vote him in for yet another term. The people have spoken! https://face2faceafrica/article/blaise-compaore-resigns
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:00:03 +0000
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