FILE PHOTO: Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore attends a plenary session at the start of the Paris Peace Forum, in Paris, France, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former President Roch Kabore, who had been under house arrest since he was toppled in a military coup in January, has been allowed to return to his family home, the country's interim government said in a statement on Wednesday.
West African leaders last month asked the junta to free the ex-president and lay out a "more acceptable" timeline for a return to democracy than its current 36-month transition period, which was agreed internally after the coup.
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