Liberian leader heads to Burkina Faso to seal Guinean accord
By APSaturday, January 16, 2010
Liberian leader heads to Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The private secretary of Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says that the African leader is departing for Burkina Faso.
Cyrus Badio did not elaborate on why Sirleaf is going, but analysts say she is likely heading to Ouagadougou to take part in the finalization of a deal signed Friday by Guinea’s wounded military leader.
The accord calls for Capt. Moussa “Dadis” Camara to go into voluntary exile and to allow his country to hold elections in six months.
The breakthrough deal is being hailed as a second chance for Guinea’s 10 million people who lived in terror during the last few months of Camara’s one-year rule. In September, his presidential guard massacred at least 156 people at a demonstration calling for a return to civilian rule.
