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2023-10-02 Africa North

Burkina Faso: 'elections not a priority compared to security', says military leader

[AFRICANEWS] Almost a year after seizing power in a coup, Captain Ibrahim Traore, who had promised a return to presidential elections by July 2024, in Burkina Faso

...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job...
, announced planned changes to the constitution to make it representative of the masses, declaring Friday, on state TV, that elections are not a priority.

'It’s not a priority, clearly, security is the priority", stated Captain Traore.

Burkinabé authorities, on Thursday, said that four officers were tossed into the calaboose a day after the military government announced it had thwarted a coup attempt.

The junta disclosed late on Wednesday that the intelligence and security services had foiled the attempt the previous day.

The military government has vowed to shed all possible light on this plot.

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