The Presidents of Senegal and Benin have been meeting with the coup leader (the commander of the Presidential Guard), and it increasingly looks like the coup will fail, with power handed back to the civilian interim government. It appears that the coup is not supported by the rest of the armed forces, Compaore's favoritism towards the Presidential Guard has perhaps come back to haunt them.
They're having elections soon, aren't they? I hope a civilian leader can slowly dismantle the Presidential Guard (without being couped or killed) and reform things a bit.
