Burkina Faso’s army chiefs call on coup leaders to surrender their arms

Military chiefs in Burkina Faso said on Monday that the West African nation’s armed forces were converging on the capital Ouagadougou “to disarm the presidential guard without bloodshed”.

The statement signed by several military chiefs called on members of the presidential guard, which staged a coup against the country’s interim government last week, to hand in their arms in exchange for safety guarantees.

“All of the nation’s armed forces are converging on Ouagadougou with the sole goal of disarming the presidential guard without bloodshed,” the army chiefs said in the statement. “We ask them to surrender their weapons”.

(BALOOGG'S BLOG, FRANCE 24 with AFP and REUTERS)