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| Ex-Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré also remains in Côte d'Ivoire despite a warrant for his arrest over the 1987 death of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. |
Côte d'Ivoire has
extradited three former members of an elite military unit that staged a brief,
failed coup last September, a Burkina Faso official said Sunday.
Associated
Press report continues:
The
three suspects arrived in Ouagadougou on Saturday evening, said Col. Sita
Sangare, a military prosecutor. They became the target of international arrest
warrants after they fled to Côte d'Ivoire when the coup failed and Burkina
Faso's transitional government was restored. Among them is a former master
sergeant, Moussa Nebie, known in Burkina Faso as "Rambo."
In
addition to the September coup, the three men are suspected of involvement in a
raid last month on an armory outside the capital.
The
presidents of Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire have sought to ease tensions after
Burkina Faso's military tribunal announced in January that an arrest warrant
had been issued for Guillaume Soro, the head of Côte d'Ivoire's parliament, for
his suspected role in the September coup.
Recordings
of phone conversations in which Soro allegedly gave support to coup leaders
form part of the case against him, though a military judge said last week that
the calls had still not been authenticated.
Ex-Burkina Faso President
Blaise Compaoré also remains in Côte d'Ivoire despite a warrant for his arrest
over the 1987 death of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara.
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