Two days after military officials said he had been removed from power, Burkina Faso’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to resign on Sunday, according to religious and community leaders. The religious and community leaders said in a statement that after mediation between Damiba and the new self-declared leader, Ibrahim Traore, “Damiba himself submitted his resignation in order to avert clashes with serious human and material implications.”
Military Chief of Burkina Faso ousted in the nation’s second coup this year.
