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The military junta in Burkina Faso has approved a three-year transitional plan to prepare the country for a return to democracy. A government committee had proposed a two-and-half year transition period, but the current duration means junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba will be in charge for 36 months before the …

Malian turn out in their numbers to celebrate the formal announcement of French troop withdrawing from the West African country. A massive rally attended by persons from all walks of life was also a show of support for the Assimi Goita-led junta. Some of the scenes witnessed included the burning …

  Burkina Faso’s military junta have made changes to the top hierarchy of the country’s security structure a week after taking over. The army and intelligence chiefs have been dismissed with coup leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, taking the role of new army chief. He replaces Brig. Gen. Gilbert …