The youngest head of state in Africa revealed. Capt Ibrahim Traoré: Burkina Faso’s new leader. The young man overthrew Lt Col Paul Damiba last month on 30th of September. “I know I’m younger than most of you here. We didn’t want what happened but we didn’t have a choice,” Capt Traoré told government officials.
“My appeal, obviously, is for – especially the big powers – to come together for the unity of the Security Council in order to make sure that there is effective deterrence in relation to this epidemic of coup d’états,” Mr Guterres said at the time.
“I know that France cannot interfere directly in our affairs,” Capt Traoré said, adding: “The Americans are our partners now, [but] we can also have Russia as a partner.”
“Traore is close to his men, wilful and courageous. He could not do six months without going to a detachment,” an unnamed source was quoted as saying on Burkina Faso’s Radio Omega.
