Burkina Faso ex-president offers to return to broker peace deal

After five years in exile, former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore says he wants to come home, offering his help to try to broker a peace deal with armed groups.

The government has been struggling to stop religious-based attacks and intercommunal violence.

And as Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Ouagadougou, protesters are threatening to take action.