Burkinabe transitional President Michel Kafando sits with regional mediators (not pictured) at the president's residence in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 19, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney
Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando, who was taken hostage during a coup a week ago, said on Wednesday he was back in power and had restored a civilian transitional government.
“I have returned to work,” he said in a brief speech to journalists at the foreign ministry in the capital.