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Kafando on Friday signed a decree to disband the presidential guard.

Members of the unit stormed the cabinet room on 16 September, seizing the interim president, the prime minister and others. Armored vehicles surrounded the building.

“This incident is a flagrant violation of Burkina Faso’s Constitution and Transitional Charter”.

On September 16, militaries members of the RSP seized power in Burkina Faso after they rushed in the council of ministers and took hostages the president of transition Michel Kafango, the Prime minister Yacouba Isaac Zida and government members.

Frenchy ambassador Gilles Thibault said on Twitter that President Kafando was freed by coup leaders and was now at the “French residence”.

Burkina Faso’s President Michel Kafando said he and his government were back in power on Wednesday a week after a coup, though it was unclear who was really in charge after the rebellion’s leader attended a state function.

Earlier, a senior army officer said soldiers would launch an assault to retake the capital, if the presidential guard did not surrender by 10:00 GMT.

President Muhammadu Buhari has declaimed against the detention of the interim president, the prime minister and other ministers of the transitional government of Burkina Faso in an apparent coup d’etat.

A reporter for VOA in Ouagadougou, Emilie Iob, said the streets of the capital emptied out as word spread that the army was coming.

ECOWAS mediators led by Senegal’s President Macky Sall drew up the deal after three days of tense talks at a hotel in the capital Ouagadougou, with details read out to reporters by former Burkina prime minister Kadre Desire Ouedraogo at 6:30 pm (1830 GMT) Sunday.

A military official said on state-run media in Ouagadougou that they had put in place a national democracy council charged with organising democratic and inclusive elections.

Burkina Faso’s President Michel Kafando said he and his government were back in power on Wednesday a week after a coup, though it was unclear who was really in charge after the rebellion’s leader attended a state function.

Negotiations between army chiefs and the presidential guard have broken down, a senior military officer said.

Senegal’s president Macky Sall, the current chairman of West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS who is leading the mediation efforts, later left the hotel.

Burkina, a former French colony, hosts some 200 French special forces.