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Spotlight | Burkina Faso
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The abortive coup d'etat in Burkina Faso has given the interim government the excuse it needed to get rid of the troublesome Regiment de Securite Presidentielle (RSP), the elite unit that was created to protect Blaise Compaore in 1995.

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