Beninese, Senegalese presidents to visit Burkina Faso
Xinhua, September 18, 2015 Adjust font size:
Senegalese President Macky Sall and his Beninese counterpart Boni Yayi are this Friday scheduled to visit Burkina Faso to assess the prevailing situation following Thursday's coup, Benin's Foreign Minister Saliou Akadiri said Thursday.
Sall is the current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) whereas Yayi is the facilitator of the Burkina Faso dialogue.
"The objective for the visit by the two African leaders is to push for speedy restoration of constitutional order in the country. This will be possible through the release of interim President Michel Kafando, his Prime Minister Isaac Zida as well as members of government who are still being held by the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP)," Akadiri said.
He said the two leaders will hold talks with the protagonists in the Burkina Faso crisis to find ways and means of ending the crisis.
On Wednesday, RSP officers, the former presidential guards of deposed President Blaise Compaore, arrested Kafando, Zida and other members of government at the Presidential Palace in Ouagadougou.
On Thursday, the soldiers announced the dissolution of the transition government and the setting up of the National Council for Democracy (CND).
CND, they said, will initiate a coherent, just and fair process that will culminate in the setting up of a robust institutional system. Enditem