OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty ON Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.
An uneasy calm permeated through the capital Ouagadougou, where soldiers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks guarded the national television center, but traffic slowly resumed on arterial roads.
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