Burkina junta leader resigns, flees after coup

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OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 3 — Burkina Faso’s junta leader agreed to step down yesterday, religious and community leaders said, two days after army officers announced his ouster in a coup that sparked internal unrest and international condemnation.Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba “himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences”, the religious and community leaders said in a statement.It followed mediation between Damiba and the new self-proclaimed leader, Ibrahim Traore, by the religious and community leaders, they added.Regional diplomatic sources said Damiba — who himself took power in a January putsch — had fled to Togo’s capital Lome on Sunday following the unstable and impoverished West African nation’s second coup this year.Traore announced in the evening that he had received the support of army chiefs to …