Burkina Faso coup leader talks tough at Inauguration
Burkina Faso’s coup leader Paul-Henri Damiba has promised to deal with the mounting insecurity after being inaugurated as the country’s new president.
His inauguration ceremony, broadcast on TV but with no foreign representatives present, was held in a small room at the offices of the Constitutional Council.
The 41-year-old lieutenant colonel opened his speech with a minute’s silence for those killed in the fight against Islamist militants over the last six years.
The man who ousted elected head of state Roch Kaboré because of his handling of the jihadist insurgency promised to reorganise the security forces to strengthen links between intelligence and field operations and to fight corruption.
Source: BBC
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