Burkinabe presidential guard that seized power in Burkina Faso showed that Blaise Compaore, the deposed ruler of the fragile West African State is still influential since he dramatically went into exile to Ivory Coast after ruling with an iron fist for 27 years.
An elite unit of only 1,300 men kidnapped an interim president, his prime minister and two cabinet ministers who were in the transitional government just before the country held its first democratic election on October 11.