Burkina Faso’s new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared president by the country’s top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday.
They say the Constitutional Council on Wednesday determined that “Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel in the national armed forces, president of the Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration is the president” of Burkina Faso.
The Constitutional Council say that Damiba’s formal swearing-in would take place on February 16 in the capital Ouagadougou.