BBC News Distributed 4 minutes prior Share Men go through an abandoned commercial center in Burkina Faso's capital city Ouagadougou on Saturday Picture SOURCE,EPA Picture subtitle, Streets have been hindered and shops shut in the capital, Ouagadougou, as Burkina Faso's battle for control proceeds Burkina Faso's self-pronounced pioneer says the man he expelled a day prior in an upset is plotting a counter-assault. Col Ibrahim Traoré likewise blamed the French armed force for holding onto Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba at one of its bases - yet France denies any contribution. Shots were heard in Burkina Faso's capital city Ouagadougou on Saturday and helicopters have flied above. Dissidents lit a fire outside the French consulate - an assault censured "with the best solidness" by Paris. The French unfamiliar service told AFP news organization that the security of its comrades was the best need, adding that an emergency place had been opened in Ouagadougou. Prior, witn