Burkina Faso: arrival of the delegation of ECOWAS chiefs of staff

View of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso.

A delegation of ECOWAS Chiefs of Staff was received at Kosyam Palace on January 29, 2022. © AFP/Olympia de Maismont

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Five days after the coup that overthrew President Roch Kaboré in Burkina and the day after the country was suspended from ECOWAS authorities, a delegation from the sub-regional organization arrived in Ouagadougou this Saturday, January 29.

Burkina will be the subject of a new ECOWAS summit on Thursday February 3 in Accra.

And by then other emissaries will make the trip to Ouagadougou. 

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With our special correspondent in Ouagadougou

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The delegation arrived discreetly this Saturday in the Burkinabè capital is led by Francis Béhanzin, Peace and Security Commissioner of ECOWAS.

The former Beninese general is accompanied by Ghanaian and Togolese officers in particular.

These emissaries are there to "

" according to a diplomatic source.

They were received for a long time at the palace of Kosyam, the Burkinabé presidency, by the new authorities, behind closed doors, without it being possible to confirm with certainty that the new strongman of the country, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was here. 

This delegation precedes the dispatch of another joint UN-ECOWAS mission scheduled for Monday led by the special representative of the UN Secretary General in West Africa Mahmat Saleh Annadif and the Ghanaian Minister of Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, accompanied of several of its counterparts in the sub-region.

Their reports will determine the decisions taken at a new ECOWAS summit devoted to Burkina to be held on Thursday February 3 in Accra, Ghana. 

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