After 27 years in power, Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, has been overthrown following a wave of popular protests. Faso joins Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych — the Kremlin client tossed from the presidency during widespread protests in Kiev this past February — as the only other world leader ejected from office as the result of a popular uprising in 2014 (so far, at least). Compaore’s ouster won’t involve the US to the degree that Ukraine’s turmoil has. But neither is the US totally without interests in the country — interests that could become jeopardized depending on how the post-Compaore period …read more
Source: Business Insider
