Religious and community leaders in Burkina Faso say the country’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has agreed to step down, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power.

Religious and community leaders in Burkina Faso say the country’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has agreed to step down, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power.

The leaders in a statement noted that following mediation between Damiba and the new self-proclaimed leader, Ibrahim Traore, “Damiba himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences.