(Updates with comment from spokesman for the mutineers in fourth paragraph).
April 19 (Bloomberg) - leader of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, appointed a new Prime Minister, as members of the presidential guard, who began a mutiny on April 15 has apologized for their actions and called at the end of the insurgency.Compaore, Luc Adolphe Tiao, Ambassador of the West African country into France, replacing Tertius Zongo as Prime Minister, said in a statement read on national television later yesterday.Compaoré has dismissed the chiefs of staff of the army, the air force and the police and dissolved his Government in the week he seeks to quell riots by soldiers protesting on their living conditions. "The mutiny has spread at least four cities in the country".We regret this mutiny, looting and disorder, "Moussa Ag Abdoulaye, a spokesman for the soldiers who were demonstrating, said in a statement read on Radio and television of Burkina Faso, the broadcaster owned by the State, in the capital, Ouagadougou." "We reaffirm our respect and our support for the President of Burkina Faso and call others in the country to stop shooting."Compaore, 60, held the largest producer of cotton in sub-Saharan Africa since coming to power by a coup in 1987. The country is in turmoil since February, when five people were killed in the demonstrations against the police following the death of a student in their custody.Researchers of gold including Montreal Semafo Inc., based in London Avocet Mining Plc have operations in Burkina Faso. SEMAFO said yesterday that the unrest did not disrupt its Mana Mine operations, while Avocet said the same thing, on 15 April.-Editors: Paul Richardson, Karl Maier.
Simon Gongo in Ouagadougou via Nairobi to pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.
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