The transition led by Captain Ibrahim Traore is due to end in July 2024, with the organisation of general elections, in accordance with the transition charter.
The national conferences have been called for 25 and 26 May 2024 in Ouagadougou, according to a press release issued by the Minister for Territorial Administration, Emile Zerbo, and broadcast on national television on Tuesday evening. Minister Zerbo indicated that the conferences would provide an opportunity to “deliberate on the follow-up to be given to the transition, the duration of which is set by the Charter of 14 October 2022 and runs until 1 July 2024.” These consultations will bring together the nation’s driving forces, in particular the defence and security forces, political parties and civil society. The Forces Vives “will come together, take stock of the past months and decide whether to continue the Transition. It will be up to them to decide in a sovereign manner.
They have the possibility, if need be, of making amendments to the charter, in order to give an outline to the progress of the country after 2nd July 2024 and to make other types of amendments to improve the future progress of our country,” Mr. Zerbo explained. On 26 April this year, deputies of the transitional legislative assembly adopted the law organising the national conferences. On Saturday 11 May 2024, hundreds of people demonstrated in several localities to call for the transition to be extended. Captain Traore came to power in September 2022 following a coup against Paul-Henri Damiba, who had himself toppled Roch Marc Kaboré eight months earlier. This political instability stems from the insecurity that has gripped part of Burkina Faso for almost ten years.
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