Headlines for the week:

• In Africa, Burkina Faso experiences a military coup, overthrowing an administration that governed for just 9 months

• Brazil heads to a runoff presidential election as neither major candidate crosses the 50% threshold to win outright

• Haiti gas protests expand, targeting US-based multinational oil companies

• UN representatives and warring parties fail to extend a ceasefire in Yemen, raising fears of a reignited civil war

• The Cuban people pass a groundbreaking civil rights referendum, reforming the country's dated national Families Code