As Islamic extremists intensified their attacks in Burkina Faso earlier this year, coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba urged the West African nation's people to give him until September to improve things as interim president.
A group of junior officers held him to just that Friday evening: calling his time up in a new coup launched on the last day of the month.
"The Damiba administration had only just reached common ground with ECOWAS, agreeing to a transition timeline in July," said Eric Humphery-Smith, senior Africa analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft. Earlier this month, Damiba addressed the nation and told the Burkinabe people that "our efforts have begun to bear fruit at the military operational level." Only two days later, a roadside bomb struck a military convoy in the north, killing at least 35 people.
"A meeting will be convened to adopt a new transitional constitution charter and to select a new Burkina Faso president be it civilian or military," the statement continued.
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