The African Union (AU) announced on Monday (31) that it has suspended Burkina Faso from all activities in the organization, until constitutional order is restored in the country, after the coup that took place last week.
“The Council decides […] suspend Burkina Faso’s participation in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country,” tweeted the Peace and Security Council, in charge of conflicts and security issues within the institution.
Last Friday (28), the country had already been suspended from the levels of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as was done with Guinea and Mali. Both countries have also recently been the scene of coups d’état.
A delegation of ECOWAS foreign ministers is due to visit Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, on Monday for a meeting with members of the military junta.
The military seized power on January 24 and placed President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré under house arrest.
Like Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso has been plunged since 2015 into a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist movements affiliated with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group. So far, the balance of this escalation is at least 2,000 dead and 1.4 million displaced.
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