Burkina Faso: new coup ousts military junta
Military commanded by Burkina Faso army captain Ibrahim Traoré staged a coup d'état and ousted the military junta that ran the country under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
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Military commanded by Burkina Faso army captain Ibrahim Traoré staged a coup d'état and ousted the military junta that ran the country under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
The 221-page report, “‘We Will Erase You From This Land’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone,” documents how newly-appointed officials in Western Tigray and security forces from the neighbouring Amhara region, with the acquiescence and possible participation of Ethiopian federal forces, systematically expelled several hundred thousand Tigrayan civilians from their homes using threats, unlawful killings, sexual violence, mass arbitrary detention, pillage, forcible transfer, and the denial of humanitarian assistance. These widespread and syst...
At a first glance, the Transitional Charter released by the Comité national du rassemblement et du développement (CNRD), the junta that led
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (pictured) said that if she is elected president next year she will end all subsidies for renewable energy and will take down France's wind turbines, writes Geert De Clercq, Reuters. Le Pen, who will be the candidate of the Rassemblement National party in the April vote, made it […]
France has been accused of “clandestinely exercising control” over francophone African countries since they formally obtained freedom. The French colonial encounter in West Africa was driven by commercial interests and, perhaps to a lesser degree, a civilizing mission. By the close of the Second World War the colonized peoples of French West Africa were making their dissatisfaction with […]