Burkina Faso’s military-led government said in a statement that former president Kabore would return to his home after house arrest.
The news comes late Wednesday , after three weeks of “consultations, the military government also gives an assurance that measures have been taken to provide his security,”
Former Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, whose future became a major issue after he was toppled in a coup in January, has been moved from house arrest to his home in the capital Ouagadougou.
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Kabore was ousted on January 24 by officers disgruntled at his handling of a nearly seven-year-old jihadist insurgency that has claimed some 2,000 lives and forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes.
Several troops were on guard outside Kabore’s home on Thursday,
It was not immediately clear whether he was free in his movements.
The junta, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, placed him under house arrest — a move condemned by Burkina’s neighbours in West Africa, which with the UN and African Union demanded his release.