Chérif Moumina Sy

The VDP concept was pushed hard by defence minister Chérif Moumina Sy a former journalist and now presidential loyalist and unanimously approved by parliament last January...

His high representative – an ill-defined new post – is Chérif Moumina Sy the former head of the National Transitional Council that governed Burkina Faso after Blaise Compaoré's departure and also founder of the opposition weekly Bendré and the human rights activist Mathias Tankoano is his law and order adviser...

Zanré's announcement prompted one publication Bendré whose former Editor Chérif Moumina Sy led Burkina's interim Parliament to comment: 'Finally the masks are off...

There are also discussions about getting rid of Salif Diallo the former ruling party stalwart who is now a key member of President-elect Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès and Chérif Moumina Sy chairman of the transitional Parliament (AC Vol 56 No 24 Vive la différence and Vol 55 No 24 Truth and reconciliation)...

The protests found a focus in former journalist and National Transitional Council member Chérif Moumina Sy who proclaimed himself interim President of the Transition on 18 September and ordered the RSP back to barracks...

The next target was the Conseil national de la transition led by the respected journalist Chérif Moumina Sy whose 90 members were discovered to be earning between US$2 500-$3 500 a month in salaries and allowances...

The National Assembly has been replaced by a Conseil national de transition led by the journalist Chérif Moumina Sy Editor in Chief of the weekly Bendré which strongly opposed Compaoré's plans to remain in power (AC Vol 55 No 24 Truth and reconciliation)...

On 2 December six of the dead were given a state funeral at the former Place de la Nation now Place de la Révolution in the presence of Kafando Zida and the President of Parliament the Conseil national de transition journalist Chérif Moumina Sy...