First Independent Mena Newspaper
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba leader of the junta ruling Burkina Faso pledged Monday to stick to the 24-month transition roadmap agreed upon with ECOWAS. Damiba made the pledge as he met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. Damiba who heads the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration now rules the West African country after toppling […]
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of Guinea’s ruling junta, has named the 81 members of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the transitional legislative body that will decide when civilians return to power. Doctor Danso Kourouma, a civil society activist, was named president of the CNT, according to a decree read out Saturday night on state television. […]
The malian protest movement Rassemblement des Forces Patriotiques or M5, which had demanded the resignation of the Malian president for weeks, and the Junta, which forced Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to resign and which took power last week, held a meeting Thursday. Many leading opposition figures of the M5 came to Kati, the junta’s headquarters, […]