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Burkina: Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba sworn in as president

2022-02-16T10:49:33.813Z


Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was invested on Wednesday February 16 as President of Burkina Faso by the Constitutional Council, three...


Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as President of Burkina Faso on Wednesday February 16 by the Constitutional Council, three weeks after taking power in a coup.

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"

I swear before the people of Burkina Faso (...) to preserve, respect, enforce and defend the Constitution, the fundamental act and the laws

" of Burkina, declared Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba while taking an oath before the Council, during a ceremony broadcast by national television.

He was dressed in a military trellis surrounded by a scarf in the colors of Burkina, his head wearing a red beret.

No foreign representative attended the swearing-in ceremony which was held in a small room in the Constitutional Council where only the official press was admitted.

Several hours before the swearing-in, access to the Council was filtered by a large security force system erected within a radius of 100 m around the institution's headquarters in Ouagadougou, noted an AFP journalist.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, 41, took power on January 24 in Ouagadougou after two days of mutinies in several barracks in the country, overthrowing elected President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, accused in particular of not having put an end to the jihadist violence which has been hitting Burkina for nearly seven years.

He set up a junta called the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) which has “

security

” as its priority.

In the wake of Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso has been caught since 2015 in a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist movements, affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, which have killed more than 2,000 people in the country and forced at least 1.5 million people to flee their homes.

Source: lefigaro

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