Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba

When Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba deposed Kaboré in January 2022 he said a stronger military response to the jihadists was needed but allowed civil society and political activity to continue...

It's not even two years since the 34-year-old Captain Ibrahim Traoré overthrew his mentor the previous military leader Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Damiba with whom he had worked to build the Mouvement patriotique pour la sauvegarde et la restauration (MPSR)...

The announcement came just days before the first anniversary of Captain Ibrahim Traoré's coup that removed fellow putschist Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba now in exile in Togo (AC Vol 63 No 20 Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries)...

Traoré thought the policies of fellow putschist Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba weak and he took power himself after a touch-and-go armed confrontation on 30 September between the officers' respective factions (AC Vol 63 No 20 Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries)...

Yet when Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was removed as Burkina's transitional president on 30 September anti-French demonstrators surged onto the streets attacking the French embassy with new putsch leader Ibrahim Traoré initially claiming Damiba was being sheltered at Kamboinsin...

Bamako's wolf warrior-style diplomacy contrasts sharply with the more pragmatic tactics adopted by Burkina Faso's putschists Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and now Captain Ibrahim Traoré with Ecowas and western states...

Traoré overthrew Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba...

When Lt-Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba launched his coup in January Traoré and his comrades were ready to move (AC Vol 63 No 3 Another domino falls to the military)...

Last month Nigérien Defence Minister Alkassoum Indattou visited Ouagadougou to meet his counterpart Gen Barthélemy Simporé and the junta leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba a week after France's last Operation Barkhane elements left northern Mali...

The junta under Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has run out of ideas as Islamist insurgents step up attacks against towns and villages as well as mines and other economic targets...

Television viewers saw Compaoré shepherded into the cavernous reception hall of Kosyam the presidential palace he had commissioned in the 1990s to meet the officer now running the country since the coup in January Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba...