Kenli: The prospects generally then for Burkina Faso don't sound very good. There's likely increased ethnic polarization, very likely more of these atrocities, particularly against ethnic Fulani. And there's also a steady spread south across borders into Gater and Ivory Coast which threatens to destabilize the wealthier and more densely populated coastal strip in West Africa. So it's a really worrying mix. You can't even rule out yet another coup, unfortunately," he says.
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