(VOVworld) - Burkina Faso's army-appointed leader, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, promised Tuesday to give power back to a civilian government. A coup ousted President Blaise Compaore last week. Zida provided no timetable for the transfer.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida attends a news conference in which he was named president at the military headquarters in November 1, 2014. (Photo: Reuters) |
According to Mogho Naba, the "king" of Burkina Faso's Mossi people, Zida made the promise at a meeting of army officers, local leaders, and foreign envoys.
On Monday, Zida pledged to form a unity government to monitor the political transition after other African nations gave the regime two weeks to restore civilian rule.
The same day, opposition leaders met with mediators from the UN, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union’s special envoy to Burkina Faso, and former Prime Minister Togo Edem Kodjo to discuss ways to return to civilian rule.