OUAGADOUGOU —
Burkina Faso said on Saturday that a process to pick a transitional
president to serve ahead of elections would be held next week, following a coup
by disaffected military officers against a ruling junta.
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“In view of the
adoption of the transition charter, a national meeting will be convened on
October 14 and 15,” said the decree signed by Burkina Faso’s new strongman,
Capt. Ibrahim Traore, who took power a week ago and was named interim
president.
Traore, who was
officially appointed head of state on Wednesday, had said two days earlier that
he would only deal with “current affairs” until a new transitional president,
civilian or military, is appointed by a “national conference”, indicating that
would happen “well before the end of the year”.
The meeting should
bring together representatives of political groups and civil society.
The impoverished
Sahel nation plunged into renewed turmoil last weekend when Lt. Col. Paul-Henri
Sandaogo Damiba — who had himself seized power in January — was toppled by
newly emerged rival Traore, leading a faction of disgruntled junior officers.
It was the latest
putsch in the Sahel region much of which, like Burkina Faso, is battling a
growing Islamist insurgency.
After a meeting on
Tuesday with a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States
(
ECOWAS), one of its members, former Nigerian president Mahamadou Issoufou,
said she was leaving feeling “confident”.
Traore, 34, vowed
that Ouagadougou would continue to respect the commitments made under Damiba to
ECOWAS, in particular the organization of elections and a return of civilians
to power by July 2024 at the latest.
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