Burkina Faso protests: 'Black smoke is all around me'

Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament.

The BBC's Laeila Adjovi in the capital, Ouagadougou, said that the protests had started early in the morning and that she could see "black smoke everywhere in the city".

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