Former President of Burkina Faso freed after 2 months of military detention

for more than two months following a military coup, according to the government.

In January, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba led a group of soldiers who deposed Kabore.

Kabore was detained after the coup, which led him to resigned on January 24.

“The government of Burkina Faso informs the public that after consultations started a little more than three weeks ago,

the former president of Burkina Faso will return to his home in (the capital) Ouagadougou on April 6,” the transitional government said in a brief statement.

Measures will be taken to ensure his safety, it added.

Last month, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) expressed “deep concern over Kabore’s continued detention since the coup,

despite several calls for his unconditional release.”

The EU had demanded Kabore’s release “no later than March 31, 2022, failing which it threatened to impose individual sanctions on the transitional authorities.”

Following the military overthrow of President Kabore, ECOWAS suspended Burkina Faso from its governing bodies, as it had done with Mali and Guinea.