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He will lead the National Council for Democracy, it said in a statement.

Burkina Faso’s new leader is a trusted aide of Compaore’s, General Gilbert Diendere.

Soldiers who stormed a cabinet meeting, plunging the poor West African country into chaos and uncertainty, detained President Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Yacouba Zida.

Soldiers from the elite presidential guard stormed into a cabinet meeting on Wednesday and abducted President Michel Kafando and ministers, disrupting a transition period due to end with polls on October 11.

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

It’s unclear where the guards took the President, Prime Minister Isaac Zida and the other officials.

He said that the Presidential Guard is planning “to discuss all that with the concerned actors, notably the political parties and civil society organisations to establish a timetable that allows us to move towards presidential and parliamentary elections”.

On Wednesday, presidential guard (RSP) members burst into a cabinet meeting and detained acting president Michel Kafando, prime minister Isaac Zida, and two ministers.