Marais wa Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania na Gabon — mataifa matano yaliyoko kwenye Pwani ya Atlantiki ya Afrika — wamealikwa na Trump kuhudhuria mkutano huo wa ngazi ya juu.
Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions.
The junta-led states are looking to solidify their alliance after splitting from regional bloc ECOWAS.
Burkina Faso’s new legislative assembly opened on Friday with a call for self-sacrifice by the 71 members appointed by the junta that seized power a month ago
“Malengo yetu si mengine isipokuwa upatanisho wa eneo linalokaliwa na makundi haya ya magaidi. Uwepo wa Burkina uko hatarini,” Traore alisema
Traore, at the head of a core of disgruntled junior officers, ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power just in January.
Traore has been appointed as “Head of State, Supreme Head of the Armed Forces”, according to the official statement by spokesman Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho
Mitaa ya mji mkuu wa Burkina Faso Ouagadougou zimesalia kimya jumatatu baada ya makabiliano kati ya makundi mbili hasimu ya kijeshi.
A Burkina court handed him a life term in absentia in April for his role in the assassination.
Armed Islamists based in neighbouring Mali began mounting cross-border raids on Burkina Faso, and neighbouring Niger, in 2015.
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