OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore said on Sunday that the situation was under control, urging people to refrain from acts of vandalism targeting the French Embassy, a statement read on national television said.
The West African nation remained on edge after Traore accused President Paul-Henri Damiba on Saturday of staging a counter-offensive after his apparent ouster a day earlier.
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