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Burkina Faso

Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba

Date of Birth: 2 January 1981
Place of Birth: Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)


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Putsch or purge?

The announcement came just days before the first anniversary of Captain Ibrahim Traoré's coup that removed fellow putschist Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba now in exile in Togo (AC Vol 63 No 20 Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries)...


Junta leader banks on autocracy

Traoré thought the policies of fellow putschist Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba weak and he took power himself after a touch-and-go armed confrontation on 30 September between the officers' respective factions (AC Vol 63 No 20 Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries)...


Can Macron's new Sahel strategy work?

Yet when Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was removed as Burkina's transitional president on 30 September anti-French demonstrators surged onto the streets attacking the French embassy with new putsch leader Ibrahim Traoré initially claiming Damiba was being sheltered at Kamboinsin...


Bamako's wolf warrior diplomacy backfires

Bamako's wolf warrior-style diplomacy contrasts sharply with the more pragmatic tactics adopted by Burkina Faso's putschists Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and now Captain Ibrahim Traoré with Ecowas and western states...


Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries

Traoré overthrew Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba...

When Lt-Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba launched his coup in January Traoré and his comrades were ready to move (AC Vol 63 No 3 Another domino falls to the military)...


Anti-jihad forces try to do without Mali

Last month Nigérien Defence Minister Alkassoum Indattou visited Ouagadougou to meet his counterpart Gen Barthélemy Simporé and the junta leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba a week after France's last Operation Barkhane elements left northern Mali...


Compaoré's return baffles nation

Television viewers saw Compaoré shepherded into the cavernous reception hall of Kosyam the presidential palace he had commissioned in the 1990s to meet the officer now running the country since the coup in January Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba...


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