First Independent Mena Newspaper
Issouf Nikièma, former parliamentarian and member of a leading political party in Burkina Faso, kidnapped last Friday July 21 in capital Ouagadougou by an unknown armed man, has been set free, his party announced Tuesday July 25. Union pour le Progrès et le Changement (UPC), Nikiema’s party, announced Tuesday that the politician was released by […]
African Union chief joins regional leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in condemning the removal of military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a coup – the second in less than a year — as the United Nations has voiced concern about the situation in the country and the European Union denounced […]
Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday by the Constitutional Council, three weeks after taking power in a coup. “I swear before the people of Burkina Faso (…) to preserve, respect, ensure respect and defend the Constitution, the fundamental act and the laws” of Burkina, Damiba said […]
Uniformed soldiers under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba announced Monday on Burkinabe television that they had overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who took office in 2015 and was sucked into the Sahel turmoil. They announced the end of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s powers, the suspension of the National Assembly and the […]
Morocco has vehemently condemned the terrorist attacks that targeted the capital city of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, as a blow to peace and stability in this sisterly country and as a blow to the efforts being made to establish democracy. At least 30 people of some 20 nationalities have been killed in the attacks staged at […]
The leader of the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) and former Premier under deposed Blaise Campaore, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, was announced winner of the first free and fair presidential elections after decades of dictatorship and a troubled transitional period. Provisional results published by the national electoral commission give 53.49 % of the votes to […]