Scores of Burkinabes in Ghana are picketing at their Embassy in Asylum Down, Accra.
The teeming crowd wants the Mission staff to shut down, since “there is a state of emergency” in the French-speaking West African country.
Ghana’s northern neighbour has been enmeshed in political turmoil since Thursday, after protesters set the country’s Parliament ablaze in protest to attempts by President Blaise Compaore to use the Chamber to amend the constitution so he could go for another term after his 27-year-rule.
Protesters returned to the streets Friday, to register their wrath against the embattled president who has vowed to remain in power for a year more, under a transitional government.
According to Starr News’ Kobby Gomez Mensah, the Burkinabe Embassy in Ghana has allowed three of the ‘protesters’ into its premises to confer with the Ambassador, while the rest of the group waits outside.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, is expected in Burkina Faso to try to ease tensions, the UN said.
ECOWAS has also declared it will not recognise any “illegal government takeover”.
