Oct. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, leader of the military coup that took place in Burkina Faso on September 30, was sworn in this Friday as the new “transitional president” of the country in a position that he will hold, in principle, until the promised elections in July 2024, during which time he has promised to defend the country against the “existential threat” of hunger and violence.
Traoré has promised in his investiture speech to defend the Constitution and the transition charter, as well as to act as guarantor of national security and put an end to tumultuous months in a country that has been the scene of two riots in less than a year, starting with the one starring Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in January, deposed in turn by Captain Traoré.
Traoré has once again justified his decision this Friday by assuring that he has been forced to take the “control of the country’s destiny” because terrorism, in his opinion, can no longer be described as a conventional war. “We have an Army in front of us” he assured during his speech, collected by the Infowakat portal.
“We can win this battle. We can win this war. The enemy is not above us. Homeland or death, we will win,” assured Traoré, who appeared during the ceremony in the capital, Ouagadougou, in his combat uniform, a red beret and a scarf that covered most of her face.
Burkina Faso has generally experienced a significant increase in insecurity since 2015, with attacks carried out by both the Al Qaeda affiliate and the Islamic State affiliate, causing a wave of internally displaced persons and refugees towards other countries of the region.
In this situation, Traoré has assured that the country is facing “an unprecedented humanitarian and security crisis” and has indicated as a priority “the reconquest of the territory from the hands of those hordes” in a speech delivered after receiving power from the hands of the Acting President of the Constitutional Council of Burkina Faso, Bouraima Cissé, who in turn has alluded to the figure of the assassinated Pan-African revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara as a guide to this new stage in the country.
