Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the leader of the junta, made the “reconquest of the territory” and the “return of displaced populations” his priorities. But the task is immense.
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The work has been laborious. Tuesday 1 Er March, in the middle of the night, after more than seventeen hours of deliberation, the national sittings gave birth to a charter and a roadmap fixing to three years the period Before a return to constitutional order in Burkina Faso. The next day, the leader of Junta, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, again invested President at a ceremony in Ouagadougou.
Since the reversal of the President elected Roch Marc Christian Kaboré – always held by the military – the lieutenant-colonel was discreet, multiplying the consultations, including with members of the fallen regime. But more than a month after taking power by the army, impatience begins to rise in the country.
After the euphoria of the first days of the coup, greeted by part of the population who criticized Mr. Kaboré his inability to stem the security crisis, the first criticisms rise against the “slowness of the process” And the “lack of concrete actions” in the field, while terrorist groups multiply their attacks and already put to the test the new strong man of the country.
Monday, in the conference room of the Ouaga 2000 district where the national sittings were held, the debates have sometimes been heated between the some 300 participants: representatives of the junta, parties, unions, organizations of the company civilian and people displaced by jihadist attacks. “The situation was exposed to the Sahel [a northern region of the country], many are missing from everything, shelter, food, paper … We must help them, and quickly”, reports Sabine Ouedraogo, who represents women of The region.
“diversify” partners
Paul-Henri Damiba, who had promised during his first televised speech to work to build a “Burkina Faso New”, made the “reconquest of the territory” and the “return of the state and displaced populations “in their localities of origin its priorities. But the task is huge: since 2015, more than 1.5 million people have fled their home because of violence; And the Burkinabe, poorly trained and under-equipped army, difficulty facing armed groups that now gang along almost half of the territory, from north to east and, more recently, in the western part of the country.
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