Interim Burkina president says back in charge after coup

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.

Burkina Faso's interim president Michel Kafando. Source: AP

"I have returned to work," he said in a brief speech to journalists at the foreign ministry in the capital.

"The transition is back and at this very minute is exercising the power of the state." (Reporting by Mathieu Bonkoungou; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Ed Cropley)