Ousted Burkina Faso leader offers resignation, say mediators

Soldiers loyal to Captain Ibrahim Traore are cheered in the streets of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso on Sunday (Kilaye Bationo/AP)

Burkina Faso’s ousted coup leader has offered his resignation as long as his security and other conditions are met, and the new junta leader who overthrew him has accepted the deal, religious leaders mediating the West African nation’s latest political crisis have said.

A junta spokesman later announced on state television that their leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, had been officially named head of state following the Friday coup that ousted Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba.