Burkina Faso junta chief declared President
The Hindu
On January 24, disgruntled officers led by Damiba forced out the country's elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who had faced a wave of public anger over his handling of a bloody jihadist insurgency.
Burkina Faso's new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared President by the country's top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday.
They said the Constitutional Council on Wednesday determined that "Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel in the national armed forces, president of the Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (the official name of the junta), is the president" of Burkina Faso.
Mr Damiba is also head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces, it added.
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