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)...

Military junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré is setting out his programme for victory in the war against militant jihadists who have taken 40% of the country killed thousands and caused 2...

Press ganged to join the volunteers The recruitment of a visually impaired civil society activist into the ranks of the government-sponsored Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie (VDPs) militia in Kaya is seen by many as representative of junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré's authoritarian style...

A campaign to recruit an additional 50 000 Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie – (VDP – community defence volunteers) launched by junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré attracted 90 000 applicants...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré's regime has brushed aside the concerns of fellow members of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) and gone even further than Mali and demanded the departure of French troops...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré who ousted his fellow putschist Paul-Henri Sandogo Damiba in that country's second coup of 2021 now leads another iteration of the Mouvement patriotique pour la sauvegarde et la restauration (MPSR)...

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...

After meeting Burkina's new leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré in Ouagadougou Nuland said she was convinced by his insistence that the new junta there had no intention of hiring Wagner fighters to help on security...

On 3 October a day after he was confirmed in power in Ouagadougou new military leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré told a sceptical audience that he understood the urgency of the security crisis: 'We must move quickly and not be hindered by all kinds of red tape'...

A CAPTAIN IN SANKARA'S FOOTSTEPS Aged 34 Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power when he was just a year older than his role model and fellow captain Thomas Sankara who staged his coup in 1983 and changed the course of his nation's history (AC Vol 62 No 10 Sankara's ghost)...

Not at the press conference at the Kati barracks but believed to have played a role in what the putschists call the 'resignation' of IBK are three further influential figures: Colonel Mama Sékou Lelenta about whom little is known; General Cheick Fanta Mady Dembélé; and Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Traoré...