Burkina Faso General Takes Power After President Resigns
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Burkina Faso’s president, Blaise Compaore, resigned after four days of protests, and the chief of staff of the armed forces, General Honore Traore, announced he was taking power.
“I assume the functions of head of state,” Traore told reporters in the capital, Ouagadougou, after Compaore’s departure was announced. News of Compaore’s resignation sparked celebrations by protesters in the Place de la Nation, a public square in the center of the city near the main military barracks, and in the second-biggest city Bobo-Dioulasso.