LOME, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Togo has arrested and expelled Burkina Faso's former president to his home country after officials there accused him of attempting a coup, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

Burkina Faso's former transitional president and the alleged mastermind behind various coup plots in the country was arrested in neighbouring Togo and expelled, sources said on Monday.

The multiparty system had been "promoting division among citizens", the country's interior minister said.

Burkina Faso’s ruling military authorities have formally wiped the political slate clean, dissolving all political parties ...

Burkina Faso's military junta has dissolved all the political parties in the country and scrapped the laws governing them, ...

In an effort to consolidate and verticalise power, Ibrahim Traoré – himself the target of several attempted coups – has ...

The UN's top human rights official on Thursday demanded Burkina Faso end its clampdown on civic freedoms, including an announced ban on political parties. In his comments, UN Human Rights Chief ...

It’s the latest of several measures that rights groups say are shrinking the civic space in the Sahel nation.

Burkina Faso said this month it had foiled an assassination attempt on military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, but analysts -- sceptical after a long series of increasingly unbelievable plots -- ...