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Vol 56 No 15

Published 23rd July 2015


Burkina Faso

Guards old and new

The latest round of the angry confrontation between ex-President Blaise Compaoré’s elite bodyguards, the 1,300-strong Régiment de sécurité présidentielle, and its former deputy commander, has gone the way of the soldiers.

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