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Burkina Faso military ousts President Damiba
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Burkina Faso Army Captain Ibrahim Traore declared in a statement read on national television on Friday evening that the country's president, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been ousted.

Traore also declared the suspension of the constitution and the transition charter, the dissolution of the transition government, and the imposition of a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.

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