Burkina Faso: Deposed leader asks coup plotters to 'come to their senses to avoid war'

Ouagadougou.- The deposed president of Burkina Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, today asked the coup plotters who overthrew him this Friday "to come to their senses to avoid a fratricidal war."

A group of soldiers led by Army Captain Ibrahim Traoré staged a coup and deposed Damiba, leader of the military junta in power, whom they accu…