Instead Captain Ibrahim Traoré who seized power in September 2022 has brought in another Russian group known as the Bears Brigade linked to Redut military contractors to protect his regime (AC Vol 64 No 19 Kremlin ponders its post-Wagner options)...

The latest round of arrests in Mali amid reports of a planned putsch on 10 August looks unlikely to change the centralisation of power in Bamako or in the neighbouring states – under Captain Ibrahim Traoré in Burkina Faso and General Abdourahamane Tiani in Niger...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré's regime in Ouagadougou has uncovered yet another ‘plot' showing that Burkina Faso's security crisis is deepening in many different ways...

CAPTAIN TRAORÉ CHOOSES STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE Designer fatigues with matching leather gloves in the West African sun and a service pistol in a holster on his waistband Captain Ibrahim Traoré is every inch the thoroughly modern putschist – even if the biggest threat to his security comes from his fellow officers...

In government affairs the key actors now seem to be Oumar Yabré the intelligence chief and Lt Abdul-Aziz Pacmogda head of security for Ibrahim Traoré who enjoy substantial autonomy in day-to-day decision-making...

Brussels risks being accused of complicity in the juntas' rights abuses and the Sahelian military leaders – General Assimi Goïta Captain Ibrahim Traoré and Gen Abdourahamane Tiani – don't want reports of deals with Brussels to undermine their nationalist anti-west stance...

Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...

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)...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré the military leader in Burkina Faso makes ambitious pronouncements but has presided over the loss of control of about two-thirds of the country...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré's junta in Ouagadougou has revised Burkina Faso's mining code nationalising gold projects and beefing up ties with Russia (AC Vol 64 No 3 West Africa's juntas look east)...