Category Archives: Burkina Faso

Nous disons simplement que dans la situation actuelle, le peuple a une victoire d’étape et il veut rester maître de sa victoire. Quelque soit le type de transition que l’on peut faire, il est clair que cette transition doit se … Continue reading →

Here it is on a Facebook site. Accuracy and veracity cannot be determined by me, obviously.  But it is a compelling narrative because of plausibility and simplicity, and numerous photos of Guy Hervé Kam and Augustin Loada with Zida yesterday … Continue reading →

The hubris… no need to point it out   ;-).  But Smockey is a rapper, and Sams’K le’Jah a reggaeman, and Norbert Traoré a military dude, and Zida was Blaise’s buddy…. so somebody has to give some direction, no?  Of … Continue reading →

An interview with Newton Ahmed Barry today on BBC French, even he does not know what is happening. Interview from August when he was being harassed by regime.

How often in recent memory during a coup or popular uprising or interregnum do you get two factions of the army declaring that they are in charge, but not actually fighting?  Was that what happened in Madagascar?  Hard to think … Continue reading →

Dans une interview accordée à RFI, Salif Diallo affirme que le rapport de force militaire serait en faveur du Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Zida. En rappel, monsieur Zida collabore avec les manifestants et la société civile. via Burkina24 – Dans une interview … Continue reading →

She reminds people that Sankara’s revolution was a military coup d’etat.  This one should not become that one all over again. Nous venons d’assister à la seule et véritable révolution digne de ce nom menée au Burkina Faso. Pour cela, … Continue reading →

And not just because I am a director of Friends of African Village Libraries, which will be working this year to establish 20 village libraries in northern Burkina Faso in a project with Catholic Relief Services funded through a U.S.D.A. … Continue reading →

When Nimeiri was ousted by a very similar large-scale people’s uprising, Gen. Swar al Dahab led a palace coup that stole all the thunder from the uprising.  He did transition to power a year later, but by then all the … Continue reading →

Now there can be a good weekend!

Opposition very organized, very disciplined, gets those 500,000 people out to Kosyam and basically sits down at the gates until Compaoré is forced to resign. Massive peaceful civil disobedience.  Shut the city down. Tahrir Square-like.  Roch, Zepherin and Salif and … Continue reading →

So nobody in the army is going to side with the opposition, it seems.  No civil war, perhaps, but no alternance, either. Except for Luc Adolphe Traoré… Le général Lougué explique ne pas comprendre pourquoi les manifestants scandent son nom, … Continue reading →

He calls on everyone to put the nation’s interest before theirs. Something he never did.  After 27 years, doesn’t putting the nation’s interest first mean ensuring a peaceful transition of power through democratic elections?  This whole crisis, and people killed, … Continue reading →

Good New York Times reporting. As the crisis deepened, Gen. Honoré Nabéré Traoré, the chief of staff of Burkina Faso’s armed forces, said at a news conference Thursday night that a transitional authority would lead the country to elections within … Continue reading →

Pour dire un mot rapide sur la déclaration du Chef d’Etat-major général des armées, pour reprendre une réflexion de Ablassé Ouedraogo, elle est incomplète, sinon insensée. A quel titre a-t-il signé cette déclaration ? En tant qu’exécutant de la décision … Continue reading →