Ibrahim Traore appointed as new President of Burkina Faso

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Category : International Published on: October 08 2022

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Captain Ibrahim Traore has been appointed as president of Burkina Faso after Paul-Henri Damiba was removed in the West African country’s second coup in less than nine months.
Traore has been appointed as “Head of State, Supreme Head of the Armed Forces”.
Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been battling an escalating wave of violence attributed to rebel fighters allied to both al-Qaeda and the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, claiming hundreds of lives and displacing two million.

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Ibrahim Traore appointed as new President of Burkina Faso