Captain Brahim Traore was appointed president of Burkina Faso, in keeping with an official assertion, on Wednesday, after the West African nation’s second coup in less than 9 months.
The impoverished Sahel state descended into renewed turmoil on the weekend when newly rising rival Traore ousted Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaugo Damiba – who took energy in January – led by a faction of disaffected junior officers.
It was the most recent coup within the Sahel area, lots of which, like Burkina Faso, are combating a rising Islamist insurgency.
Traore was appointed “head of state, commander-in-chief of the armed forces,” in keeping with the official assertion learn by junta spokesman Captain Kiswondida Farouk Azaria Surgo, on nationwide tv.
The assertion stated Traore would now be “the guarantor of nationwide independence, territorial integrity … and the continuity of the state.”
Damiba fled to Togo following the two-day standoff, which was defused by non secular and neighborhood leaders.
Burkina is grappling with a seven-year jihadist marketing campaign that has killed 1000’s, compelled almost two million individuals to flee their properties and left greater than a 3rd of the nation exterior authorities management.
A bulging anger within the armed forces led to Damiba’s coup towards the elected president in January.
