Gunfire erupts again in Burkina Faso day after 2nd coup

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Burkina Faso is the most recent country in the region to experience a coup. "It feels like deja vu," says a researcher in Ouagadougou. The coup d'etat mirrored the one just eight months ago, when Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba ousted its democratically elected president, Roch Marc Kabor�.

Published 4 months ago · Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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