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The ECOWAS mediator for Burkina Faso has ended his visit to the country following last Friday's coup, the second in eight months. Mahamadou Issoufou met with the country's new strongman Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Speaking to the press…

West African mediator in the Mali crisis, Goodluck Jonathan,  says it was imperative for the country to return to democratic rule as soon as possible. He made the comments a day after Mali's army-dominated legislature approved a plan…