A national conference in Burkina Faso has adopted a charter that will allow the junta that seized power in the West African state in January, 2022 to lead a three-year transition. The conference approved the charter, which was later signed by junta leader Lt. Colonel Henri-Paul Damiba on March 1, 2022 after a day-long debate in the capital Ouagadougou.
Burkina Faso - alongside neighbours Mali and Niger - is struggling to contain attacks by armed militants linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State, who have killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands in the West Africa Sahel area, rendering swathes of territories ungovernable and weakening governments.
Junta leader Damiba replaced former president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in late January, 2022 because he felt Kabore did not do enough to combat terrorism.
Burkina Faso: Junta Declares a 36-Month Transition
RFI, 1 March 2022
The head of Burkina Faso's junta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, signed a charter on Tuesday, putting in place a three-year transition period before the country… Read more »
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Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has been inaugurated as the country's president, weeks after he led a coup that overthrew democratically-elected Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
In a televised ceremony, Damiba swore to "preserve, respect, uphold and defend the Constitution", the nation's laws, and a "fundamental act" of key decisions approved by the junta, which took power on January 24, 2022.
Damiba cited Kabore inability to curb an
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Guinea-Bissau's government launched a major investigation into a foiled coup attempt to overthrow President Umaro Sissoco Embalo. Reports say a commission of inquiry was launched, adding that military intelligence agents were gathering information at government headquarters.
On February 1, Embalo
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The African Union has joined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West Africa's regional bloc, in suspending Burkina Faso in the aftermath of a military coup. Burkina Faso is the third ECOWAS member nation to be punished for a military takeover in just 18 months. The announcement by ECOWAS came several days after mutinous
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Palais Kosyam, the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (file photo).
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