West African leaders hold a key summit called to address the latest coup in a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence
Military chiefs from ECOWAS flew to Ouagadougou on Saturday for talks with the junta, and this was followed on Monday by a diplomatic mission led by Ghana's foreign minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey.
Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States to be overtaken by the military in less than two years. ECOWAS has already slapped crippling sanctions on Mali and Guinea for dragging their feet on commitments to restore civilian rule.
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