BURKINA FASO
BURKINA FASO – Case Sankara and companions. The trial is quick! … Blaise Compaoré must be extradited and France must cooperate!
Press release – The deliberation of the confirmation of charges hearing, published on 13 April 2021 confirms the indictment of the main accused. The case is now referred to the Military Tribunal responsible for the trial. We ask that Blaise Compaoré be extradited to Burkina Faso and that France make available to the Burkinabe courts the archives relating to the murder of Thomas Sankara.
The way is therefore open to organize the trial. However, the date has not been set. According to our latest information, the Burkinabe military justice is still wondering whether it should start with the trial of the Sankara case or the appeal of the 2015 putsch trial.
We urge justice to begin with the Sankara case. For more than 34 years, the families of the victims of October 15, 1987 have been waiting for justice to be done, for the remains of their parents’ bodies to be returned to them in order to organize their burial, and to finally be able to mourn.
The announced opening of the trial does not make us forget that the investigation into the alleged international conspiracy remains open following the disjunction operated by the Burkinabe justice between it and the events that took place in Burkina Faso.
We now know that not everything has been done on the French side to transmit “the documents produced by French administrations during the Sankara regime and after its assassination, (…) covered by national secrecy”. as promised by President Emmanuel Macron in Ouagadougou in November 2017. In particular, we request that the archives of President François Mitterrand and his cabinet, as well as those of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, then Prime Minister and his cabinet, covering the period before and after the assassination of Thomas Sankara, covered by the defence secret, be transmitted to the Burkinabe courts.
We urge the democratic forces and the people of Côte d’Ivoire to put pressure on their government to extradite Blaise Compaoré, who has done so much harm to their country.
This trial is a historic event of international significance. We call on the authorities to film the trial for the posterity, history, memory and education of the young people of today and tomorrow.
We thank all those who by their commitment have allowed the trial to finally take place. It is the result of a long struggle of several decades. It will allow the perpetrators of the murder of Thomas Sankara and the other victims of 15 October 1987 to be tried. This is a great step towards truth and justice.
BURKINA FASO
BURKINA FASO – Draft revision of the constitution: The ESC and the Ombudsman of Faso removed, French will no longer be the official language
The adoption of a bill revising the Constitution, this is the main information from the Council of Ministers. As implications included in this bill, the Minister of Justice, Rodrigue Bayala, has indicated that French will become a working language and national languages will become official languages.
Institutions such as the Ombudsman of Faso and the Economic and Social Council (ESC) will also be abolished. Their duties and functions will be entrusted to an institution called the “Conseil national des communautés”. According to the minister in charge of justice, this new institution will be composed of religious leaders, customary and grassroots communities.
The transformation of the National Intelligence Agency into the National Security Council, a body that will be constitutionalized and the abolition of the High Court of Justice are also reforms contained in the draft text.
BURKINA FASO
BURKINA FASO – A major terrorist attack targets the city of Djibo in the Sahel
The city of Djibo, located in the Sahel region, was the subject of a terrorist attack in the afternoon of Sunday, November 26, 2023. Numerous assailants arrived by motorcycle and car stormed the camp of the group of anti-terrorist forces and several strategic sites of the city. For more than two hours, they shot at the people, burned and looted everything they could. For the moment, no official communication on the outcome of this attack.
According to the news agency of Burkina it is «nearly 3,000 terrorists» who attacked the city of Djibo. Witnesses on the spot explain that the attackers came in large numbers and attacked the strategic points of the city, including the camp of the military detachment.
“The fighting was particularly violent at the military camp,” Burkina Faso’s news agency said. For several hours, the attackers occupied it just like the rest of the city. A security source reveals that “soldiers fell, all collective weapons, all ammunition and armoured vehicles carried away.”
A counter-offensive was carried out and «more than 400 terrorists» killed, says the Burkina news agency. A figure that cannot be independently verified. In addition, the agency does not mention possible losses and material damage, on the side of the Burkinabe forces.
For more than two years, the city of Djibo has been under the blockade of armed terrorist groups. The inhabitants are supplied by a WFP airlift or by the rare convoys escorted by the army of Burkina Faso. These convoys are regularly attacked by armed terrorist groups.
A LA UNE
BURKINA FASO – Captain Traoré: “We are not enemies of the French people”
Burkina Faso is not “enemy” of the “French people”, said Captain Ibrahim Traoré, transitional president, following a coup d’état, in an interview broadcast Wednesday, September 06, 2023 by Radio television of Burkina (RTB, public.
“We are not enemies with the French people, it is the policy of those who lead France that poses a problem in Africa, so as long as a state is not in an imperialist spirit (…) there is no problem,” he said in the interview recorded on 31 August.
Burkina has been looking for new cooperation ever since. We have new partners who support us in terms of equipment and so on,’ he added, without naming them.
Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister, Olivia Rouamba, on Monday expressed her country’s desire to “strengthen bilateral cooperation” with Iran, during a meeting in Tehran with President Ebrahim Raïssi.
A Russian delegation exchanged with Mr. Traoré last week in Ouagadougou, on issues of development and military cooperation and Captain Traoré went to Saint Petersburg in July for the Russia-Africa summit.
He reaffirmed his country’s support for Niger, the scene of a coup d’état on 26 July, with which Burkina shares the so-called “three-border” zone between Mali, Niger and Burkina, considered a hideout of jihadist groups.
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