He stressed the importance of dialogue and visited the Malian leader Colonel Assimi Goïta and Burkina Faso's Captain Ibrahim Traoré before the bloc's 7 July summit had officially named him as facilitator in the region (Dispatches 9/7/24 The juntas take on the civilian presidents)...

With by far the highest number of casualties in the Sahel region Ibrahim Traoré's regime looks under increasing pressure...

But instead of saving West Africa's oldest airline the junta of Captain Ibrahim Traoré had other plans...

The standing of Burkina Faso's transitional leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré who seized power in September has hit a new low...

These were earmarked both for operations to tackle the Katiba Hanifa and to protect Captain Ibrahim Traoré from dissident elements in the Burkina military...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré's belligerent rhetoric and praise for Russia's military backing isn't working on the ground...

Soro's friendly encounter in Burkina Faso with the increasingly erratic and repressive junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré was regarded with the most suspicion in Abidjan and Yamoussoukro...

Rasmané Zinaba and Bassirou Badjo youth leaders in the pro-democracy movement Balai Citoyen (Citizen Sweep) were abducted on 20 February and 21 February respectively by unidentified agents continuing a pattern of targeted actions against anyone deemed critical of the military junta led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré...

Burkina's leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré was guest of honour at July's St Petersburg Russia-Africa summit and the monitoring group All Eyes on Wagner has reported a steady trickle of bilateral military visits between Moscow and Ouagadougou ever since (Dispatches 17/10/23 Junta is latest to sign Russian nuclear pact)...

The regime's self-confidence will be felt more widely across the Sahel encouraging Burkina Faso's junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré and General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (CNSP) in Niger (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Tiani opens the bidding)...