Burkina Faso experienced a second coup in eight months on Friday, September 30, when Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who came to power in a putsch at the end of January, was in turn dismissed from his post by military.
After a day peppered with shooting in the district of the presidency in Ouagadougou, about fifteen soldiers in fatigues and for some hooded spoke, shortly before 8:00 p.m. (GMT and local) on the plateau of the national radio and television.
"Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba is removed from his position as president of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration" (MPSR, the ruling body of the junta), the soldiers said in a statement read by a captain.
He added that the new strongman of the country, designated president of the MPSR, was now captain Ibrahim Traoré.
As during the January 2022 coup, the military invoked "the continuing deterioration of the security situation" in the country.
"We have decided to take our responsibilities, driven by a single ideal, the restoration of the security and integrity of our territory", they declared in their televised intervention.
"Our initial common ideal has been betrayed by our leader in whom we had placed all our trust. Far from liberating the occupied territories, the once peaceful areas have come under terrorist control," they said.
Since 2015, recurrent attacks by armed movements affiliated with the jihadists of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, mainly in the north and east of the country, have claimed thousands of lives and caused the displacement of some 2 million people. .
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