Burkina Faso coup leader says vote still expected by 2024

Published October 3, 2022 10:43 AM

By SAM MEDNICK and ARSENE KABORE
Associated Press

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s new junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore says the military still hopes to hold new elections by 2024. That date had been agreed to by the man he ousted from power on Friday. Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to resign Sunday and left the country for the neighboring nation of Togo. In an interview with Radio France Internationale that was aired on Monday, Traore said that his junta hopes to return Burkina Faso to constitutional order by 2024 if not before. Mediators from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS were headed Monday to Ouagadougou to step up the pressure on the new junta regime.

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