Burkina Faso Declares Coup Leader, Paul-Henri Damiba As President

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Burkina Faso’s  coup leader, Lt.- Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared President by the country’s top constitutional body.
Burkina Faso Declares Coup Leader, Paul-Henri Damiba As President KOKO TV.NG
Burkina Faso Declares Coup Leader, Paul-Henri Damiba As President KOKO TV.NG

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The Constitutional Council on Wednesday determined that “Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel in the national arme

d forces, president of the Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (the official name of the junta), is the president” of Burkina Faso.

Damiba is also Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, it added.
The move confirmed an announcement by the junta on January 31 that said Damiba would be appointed to those roles for a transitional period and would be assisted by two Vice presidents.
In a statement issued later Thursday, the Constitutional Council said that Damiba’s formal swearing-in would take place on February 16 in the capital Ouagadougou.

The disgruntled officers led by Damiba, had on January 24, 2022, forced out the Burkina Faso elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who had faced a wave of public anger over his handling of a bloody jihadist insurgency.

Facing pressure from West African bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the continental body, the African Union (AU), the junta last week reversed its suspension of the constitution and scrapped an overnight curfew.

But the key issue of a date for elections remains unsettled.
On January 24, the junta vowed to re-establish “constitutional order” within a “reasonable time”.
On Saturday, it announced that a 15-member commission would be set up with the goal of “drawing up a draft charter and agenda, together with a proposal for the duration of the transition period”.
The panel will be given two weeks in which to report back, it added.
One of the world’s poorest and most volatile countries, Burkina Faso is struggling with a jihadist campaign that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and forced around 1.5 million to flee their homes.
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The move came shortly after the African Union (AU) suspended Burkina Faso for the takeover and diplomats from West Africa and the United Nations pressed demands for a return to civilian rule.
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