The junta managed, since Friday, September 30, by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, little known to the population, will have to face the jihadist thrust that the country knows.
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In Burkina Faso, we now know the scenario. Shots that resonate in the early morning in the garrisons of the capital, hooded soldiers blocking the strategic axes of the city. Then the long wait, in a climate of confusion, until the appearance on the television screens of the new faces of those who will direct the country, ravaged by jihadist attacks. Only eight months after the putsch of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the army again overthrew power, Friday, September 30, at the end of a day marked by a series of mutinies in the barracks and the circulation of Many false information on social networks.
At 8 pm local, the vagueness was dissipated when about fifteen soldiers in lattice, some with the masked face, announced the eviction of the head of the junta and the dissolution of the government. “The living forces of the nation will be summoned incessantly to adopt a new charter of the transition and to designate a new president of Faso, civil or military,” said one of the putschists, reading a declaration signed of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, a 30 -year -old officer now President of the Patriotic Movement for safeguarding and catering (MPSR), the name of the new junta.
a “inappropriate” blow
The putschists also announced the suspension of the Constitution, the establishment of a curfew from “9 pm to 5 am” in the morning, as well as the closure of the borders “until further notice”. In a statement published in the evening, the Economic Community of West African States has condemned with “the greatest firmness” the new army coup in Burkina Faso, deeming it “inappropriate” while ‘A consensus had made it possible to set a return to constitutional order in 2024.
Friday, the inhabitants of the capital had the impression of reliving a familiar scene. On January 24, a group of soldiers had overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, democratically elected but unable to stem the outbreak of terrorist attacks in the country in the previous seven years. Seening power, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba had aroused the hope of part of the population, promising the “reconquest” of the territory, more than 40 % of which escape the control of the State, as that the return of displaced people because of violence – nearly one in ten Burkinabé – in their original village. According to the press release from Ibrahim Traoré, proposals aimed at a “reorganization” of the army, to make it more effective on the ground, would have been proposed to Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, who would have rejected them.
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