He announced his resignation in a statement on Friday and called for a 90-day transition to "free and transparent" elections in the West African country.
"I declare a vacancy of power with a view to allowing a transition that should finish with free and transparent elections in a maximum period of 90 days," said the statement, read on local radio and television by presenters.
It was unclear who was in charge of the country following his resignation. "As of today, Compaore is no longer in power," Army Colonel Boureima Farta earlier told tens of thousands of protesters who had gathered in front of the army headquarters.
Arsene Evariste Kabore, the former editor-in-chief of RTB Television in Ouagadougou, told Al Jazeera that Compaore had left the capital on Friday, travelling towards the southern town of Po, near the border with Ghana. Compaore had been in power since a 1987 coup against then-President Thomas Sankara, Compaore's longtime friend and political ally, who was shot dead.
Ouagadougou riots Protesters stormed the parliament building in Ougadougou on Thursday and set part of it ablaze in a day of violence around the country aimed at stopping a parliamentary vote that would have allowed the president to seek a fifth term in office.
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