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Burkina Faso's coup leader named transition president

AFP, 16 Oct 2022
Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power two weeks ago in a coup in Burkina Faso, the second in eight months, is "unanimously" appointed transitional president until a presidential election scheduled for July 2024. Some 300 delegates from political parties, social and religious groups, security forces, unions as well as people displaced by jihadist violence took part in a national forum to appoint Captain Traore.

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