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Military personnel can be seen outside the entrance of Niger's national television station in Niamey as the president, Mohamed Bazoum, remains detained by the presidential guard. IMAGES
The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
The new self-proclaimed leader of the military junta ruling Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, parades in the streets of Ouagadougou and hails the cheering crowd. IMAGES
The French embassy in Burkina Faso is targeted by angry protesters and a fire breaks-out as the situation remains unclear in Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso's army dismisses a claim by junior officers that they had seized power in the West African country. IMAGES
In the streets of Ouagadougou, the army in blocking key streets, carrying arms as well as other military weaponry. This comes after gunfire was heard in the capital overnight. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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