Burkina Faso Government and Coup Leaders Sign Truce

23 September 2015

Burkina Faso coup leaders agreed to return to their barracks and said they would restore the deposed president to power, signing a deal with the army that apparently defuses a tense standoff sparked by last week's coup.

The breakthrough came on Tuesday night after marathon talks in Nigeria's Abuja, where west African heads of state had sought to break the impasse fuelled by angry threats on both sides.

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