20:04 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPresident Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso has appointed himself minister of defence following an army mutiny in the west African nation.<\/p>\n
Mr Compaore revealed the move in a cabinet reshuffle announced on national television.<\/p>\n
Last week, he ordered bonuses for soldiers, sacked the head of the army and dismissed the government in a bid to reassert his authority.<\/p>\n
New army chief Gen Honore Nabere Traore said mutineers would meet Mr Compaore.<\/p>\n
“The crises are heading toward a solution,” Gen Traore said on public radio, adding that officials had “found adequate responses” to the mutineers’ demands.<\/p>\n
Trouble began on 14 April when soldiers and presidential guards in the capital Ouagadougou staged a protest over unpaid housing allowances.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of people also took to the streets to demonstrate against high food prices.<\/p>\n
On Monday, President Compaore also appointed Luc Adolphe Tiao – a journalist without prior government experience – as the country’s new prime minister.<\/p>\n
Mr Compaore is a former soldier who came to power in a military coup in 1987.<\/p>\n
Landlocked Burkina Faso – formerly Upper Volta – has spent many of its post-independence years under military rule.<\/p>\n
One of Africa’s poorest countries, it has significant reserves of gold, but cotton production is its economic mainstay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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