Burkina army enters presidential guard camp, coup leader gone

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By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso soldiers met little resistance on Tuesday as they entered a presidential guard camp in the capital where members of the elite unit were holding out after a coup, an army officer said. Residents of the Ouaga 2000 district in the capital Ouagadougou said they heard bursts of gunfire in the late afternoon as troops, who had surrounded the base for most of the day, moved in.




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