The president of the transition in Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who came to power in a coup at the end of September, appointed Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tembela, a 64-year-old lawyer, as Prime Minister on Friday.
"Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tembela is appointed prime minister"
, indicates a decree read on public television by the secretary general of the government Jacques Sosthene Dingara.
Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tembela, a lawyer by profession, heads the Center for International and Strategic Research, a think tank.
Doctor of law, trained in Nice where he also taught, he is the author of several books including
"Thomas Sankara and the Revolution in Burkina Faso - An experience of self-centered development".
"Drifts"
Very critical on the television sets he is familiar with, he denounced the excesses of the transition under Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, overthrown by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who took power in a coup d'etat. September 30.
On October 14, a charter was adopted providing for the establishment of a 25-member government and a 71-member legislative assembly.
On January 24, soldiers led by Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba and grouped in a junta called the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) overthrew President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, accused of incapacity in the face of attacks. jihadists who have multiplied in Burkina.
But these attacks have not ceased in eight months and a new putsch took place on September 30, bringing Captain Traoré to power, who notably invoked the deterioration of the security situation to justify this coup.
“Since January 24, until September 30, we have observed drifts which have led to a reframing of this transition”
, summed up Captain Traoré on Friday in his speech during his inauguration as president.
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