Ibrahim Traore, the young army captain who led the latest coup in Burkina Faso, will be inaugurated as interim president on Friday, the constitutional council announced Wednesday, IgbereTV reports
Captain Ibrahim Traore, 34, led disgruntled junior officers last month in the second coup in eight months to hit the jihadist-torn west African country.
Junta members had already announced that he would take over the role of transitional president, but Friday will see the official investiture.
The constitutional council said on Wednesday that it “officially notes the vacancy of the presidency,” adding that Traore had been designated as “president of the transition, head of state, supreme chief of the national armed forces” by a national meeting of the country’s forces
