Burkina Faso’s opposition leader, Ablasse Ouedraogo has been declared missing.
According to reports, Ouedraogo went missing for three days after being taken from his home by people who claimed to be police.
Ouedraogo served as Burkina Faso’s foreign minister and deputy director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
He is currently the head of the opposition party Le Faso Autrement.
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The missing ex-foreign minister has been critical of the military regime that has ruled Burkina since a September 2022 coup.
In early November, the Burkina military drafted the 70-year-old Ouedraogo to send him to the front to assist in “the fight against terrorism” in the country, where a jihadist insurgency has raged for years.
His political party condemned the move as retribution for Ouedraogo’s criticism of the country’s rulers.