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National
meetings" bringing together the living forces of Burkina Faso and having to appoint a transitional president before the organization of elections in this country, the scene of two coups d'etat in eight months, will be held on October 14 and 15, according to a presidential decree read Saturday on television.
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In view of the adoption of the transition charter, a national meeting is convened on October 14 and 15
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Tribute to the 27 soldiers
On the same day, a ceremony took place in the early afternoon in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in tribute to the 27 soldiers who died at the end of September in an attack in the north of the country considered to be the catalyst for the coup. of September 30.
The 27 coffins of soldiers from the 14th Combined Arms Regiment killed in Gaskindé on September 26 received a military tribute presided over by the country's new strongman, Captain Ibrahim Traoré.
The soldiers were posthumously decorated in one of the main military camps in the capital, the Sangoulé Lamizana camp, AFP journalists noted.
Captain Traoré, anti-Covid mask on his nose, did not speak.
At the end of a ceremony where a religious tribute was also paid, the coffins were taken to the municipal cemetery of Goughin, not far away, where thousands of inhabitants had gone.
They must be buried there in the afternoon in the military square.
On September 26, a supply convoy bound for the town of Djibo, capital of the Sahel region landlocked in the north of the country, was attacked by armed men.
At least 37 people died, including 27 soldiers.
Security degradation
Burkina Faso, like its neighbors Mali and Niger, is caught in a whirlwind of protean violence of a jihadist and inter-community nature.
The Burkinabè army, which was unable to stem the progress of armed groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, gradually split between rank and file soldiers deployed in the field and high-ranking officers.
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Ibrahim Traoré, a young 34-year-old captain, justified having overthrown Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, himself the author of a putsch in January, by the latter's inability to curb the continuing security deterioration in this country. struck since 2015 by the jihadist.