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Days after troops seized the barracks, military officers in Burkina Faso announced that they have ousted the president and taken control of the country. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, whose whereabouts are unknown, has been under criticism from civilians and the military for the government’s failure to defeat Islamist insurgents. The World’s Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi reports.