Burkina Faso adopts amnesty law for 2015 putschists

Burkina Faso’s government has adopted a new bill which will grant amnesty to people convicted in connection with the failed 2015 coup.

The Minister of Justice said they will first have to admit to facts, behave well, and be willing to be operationally deployed in the fight against terrorism.

In 2015, a group of soldiers from the country’s elite Presidential Security Regiment, loyal to ousted President Blaise Campaore, attempted to…