Captain Ibrahim Traore has been appointed as president of Burkina Faso after Paul-Henri Damiba was removed in the West African country’s second coup in less than nine months.
The Sahel country plunged into political turmoil on September 30 after a group of officers decided to remove Damiba due to his inability to deal with a worsening armed uprising, dissolved the transitional government and suspended the constitution.
Traore has been appointed as “Head of State, Supreme Head of the Armed Forces,” according to an official statement read out on national television by a spokesman for the military government, Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho.
The statement said Traore would now be the “guarantor of national independence, territorial integrity… and continuity of the State.”
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