WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has halted most U.S. aid to Burkina Faso after determining that the January ouster of President Roch Kabore constituted a military coup, triggering aid restrictions under U.S. law, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The State Department made the determination in line with a U.S. law under which U.S. foreign aid – except funds to promote democracy – must be stopped to a country whose elected head of government is deposed by military coup or in a coup in which the military plays a decisive role.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn. and Humeyra Pamuk in Washington; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Howard Goller)
