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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Mednick and Arsene Kabore

Security fears grow after latest Burkina Faso coup

ASSOCIATED PRESS

As Islamic extremists intensified their attacks in Burkina Faso earlier this year, coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba urged the West African nation's people to give him until September to improve things as interim president.

A group of junior officers held him to just that Friday evening: calling his time up in a new coup launched on the last day of the month.

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