APA – Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) – The transition led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré comes to an end on 1 July 2024.
Burkina Faso’s MPs on Friday gave the go-ahead for a national consultation to decide how to proceed with the transition, which ends on 1 July.
They unanimously approved the bill giving the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) the green light to organise the national consultation.
Members of the assembly proposed, among other things, that these meetings should be held at least one month before 1 July 2024.t
The transition period ends on 1 July 2024, according to the transition charter.
Some of Captain Traoré’s supporters have called for the transition to be extended to allow him to ‘liberate the country from terrorists’.
Captain Traoré came to power in September 2022 following a coup against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba, who overthrew Roch Marc Kaboré eight months earlier, blaming the deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso.
Since 2015, the country has been facing a jihadist insurgency that began in the north before spreading across much of the country.
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