Burkina Faso junta releases president

Burkina Faso’s military has released the country’s interim President after he was detained during a coup that dissolved his government.

Ouagadougou, Friday Burkina Faso’s coup leaders will release the detained interim President Michel Kafando, a statement read on national television said.

The worldwide community has unanimously condemned the coup, with the UN, AU, European Union, ECOWAS, the United States, and former colonial power France denouncing the junta.

The mediators were later to meet again with coup leader General Gilbert Diendere, the former chief of staff of former president Blaise Compaore, who was toppled by a popular uprising in October 2014.

They have also agreed to the “principle of dialogue”, as two West African presidents come to mediate.

At least three people have been killed and 60 injured in violence across the country.

“We hope the ongoing FILEP will be concluded and that all journalists and media leaders who arrived in Burkina Faso will safely return to their homes”, Rogerio added.

Compaore was deposed by protestor last year after he considered extending his rule of 27 years.

Diendere announced the military had overthrown Burkina Faso’s interim government Thursday, declaring the arrest of the president and prime minister.

Adesina quoted the president as saying that in support of the forthcoming elections, Nigeria had donated 20 pick-up vans to the National Electoral Commission of Burkina Faso.

He said the underlying cause of the military power grab was fear of instability after the transitional government barred Compaore’s supporters from contesting the polls next month.

Elections were scheduled to take place on October 11, 2015.

While protesters were thwarted in the capital of Ouagadougou, unrest flared in other regions of the country, where some burned the homes of Compaore associates.

Burkina Faso’s land and air borders have been closed and a curfew has been imposed, the ministry said.

The coup leaders announced the dissolution of the transitional institutions and pledged to seek negotiations “to form a government which will dedicate itself to restoring political order in the country” before elections were held.