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The coup d’Etat perpetrated on January 24, 2022 by the military in Burkina Faso will be on the agenda of the Ecowas extraordinary summit which opens this Thursday in Accra.
The new strongman of Ouagadougou, on Wednesday evening, announced the lifting of the curfew introduced after the seizure of power.
The new military junta in Burkina Faso has consolidates its grip on power after Lieutenant Colonel Damiba was officially sworn in as head of state and assumed his role as the commander-in-chief of the national armed forces.
The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) “strongly condemns the military coup in Burkina Faso” and announces “an extraordinary summit in the coming days to examine the situation.”
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba seized power in Burkina Faso after deposing civilian President Roch Christian Kabore on Monday, casting the spotlight on the 41-year-old Lieutenant Colonel.
With the weekend unrest in landlocked Burkina Faso culminating in sporadic gunfire around the presidential palace, President Roc Marc Christian Kaboré has been reportedly arrested by mutinous soldiers.
Who killed Thomas Sankara is one of several key questions judicial officials in Burkina Faso would be asking as the trial over his assassination thirty-four years ago got underway at a military court in the capital Ouagadougou.
The trial of the killers of the “pan-African icon,” Thomas Sankara will kick off Monday, October 11, before the Military Court of Ouagadougou without Blaise Compaorée and his lawyers.
This financing from the African Development Fund (ADF), through the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, consists of a €41.60-million loan and a grant of €17.83 million.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), in a press release received by APA on Monday, sounded the alarm and pointed to the increase in violence and the “slow and insufficient humanitarian response” to explain the resurgence of IDPs.