Burkina Faso junta chief approves three-year transition before elections
Burkina Faso’s junta chief on Tuesday signed a charter setting a three-year transition period before the country holds elections, an AFP journalist said, just over a month after he led a coup to overthrow the country’s elected leader. Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, leader of the military junta, sits before being sworn in as head of state in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso February 16, 2022 “The duration of the transition is set at 36 months from the date of the inauguration of the president,” according to the transition charter signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who replaced former president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in late January. The transition period is longer than the 30 months proposed by a technical commission set up by the junta at the beginning of last month and by a draft charter discussed for several hours at meetings between the regime and civil groups on Monday and Tuesday. Those meetings also involved political parties, unions, youth and wo...