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UN coordinator ordered to leave Burkina Faso as security crisis worsens

Burkina Faso's new junta leader Capitain Ibrahim Traore (centre), 8 October 2022. AFP - ISSOUF SANOGO

Burkina Faso has ordered the UN's coordinator in the country to leave, declaring her "persona non grata", the foreign ministry said on Friday.

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Burkina Faso, Italian diplomat Barbara Manzi, "is declared persona non grata in the territory of Burkina Faso", the ministry said, without giving any official reason for the expulsion.

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