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Ouagadougou — Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré will return from asylum for the first time since being expelled in the 2014 uprising, despite Burkina Faso authorities being convicted earlier this year for helping to kill his predecessor on Wednesday. Stated.
Compaoré, who had ruled for 27 years, was invited by the ruling junta to attend a meeting between interim president Paul Henri Damiva and several former presidents on Friday. rice field. The president said in a statement.
The junta seized power in a January coup justified by citing rising Islamic violence, but militant groups related to Alcaida and Islamic State. It has never been possible to delay the rebellion by. ..
Damiba has been reaching out to his predecessor in recent weeks, emphasizing the need for political unity in the face of threats.
Compaoré, 71, fled to Côte d'Ivoire during the 2014 uprising. This stems from his efforts to change the constitution so that he can maintain his power.
He was sentenced to absent in April after his predecessor Thomas Sankara was killed in 1987 and sentenced to life imprisonment during a coup d'etat.
The president's statement stated that the meeting of former prime ministers "does not prevent judicial charges against some of them," but did not elaborate.
In a statement, a bar association representing Sankara's family, who was killed during the 1987 coup, demanded that Compaoré be arrested once in Burkina Faso.
It seemed unlikely. Amadou Couribury, a spokesman for the Côte d'Ivoire government, has repeatedly refused to hand over the Compaoré, but said the Côte d'Ivoire government has agreed to return the Compaoré with Burkina Faso authorities.
Burkina Faso media recently speculates that Compaoré may be granted a pardon for the Sankara murder as part of the Hunta reconciliation process.
Neither Côte d'Ivoire nor Burkina Faso has made any official comments on this matter.
The meeting on Friday will also be attended by President Roch Marc Christian Kabole, who was overthrown in January. Cabole met Damiba for the first time since the coup last month. (Report by Loucoumane Coulibaly in Abidjan, Thiam Ndiaga in Ouagadougou, Bate Felix in Dakar, Written by Estelle Shirbon and Aaron Ross, Edited by James Macharia Chege and Alistair Bell)
