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African Heads of State Embrace Newly-Elected President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Le président de la République de Côte d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara  est arrivé ce lundi Dec. 28, 2020 en fin de matinée à Ouagadougou, pour prendre part à la cérémonie d’investiture de President Roch Marc Christian Kabore (credit: twitter.com/presidencebf)

By Gary Raynaldo   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES

Ten African heads of state paid homage to the newly elected President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré at his inauguration held in capital city Ouagadougou Monday.  Kaboré  was re-elected as President of west African nation  Burkina Faso in the November 22, 2020  election, winning a majority in the voting.  Kaboré  was sworn in for his second term. 

Security in Sahel To Be President Kaboré’s  Priority In Second Term 

“I intend to win the wager of providing security and stability for our country and ensure displaced people return to their homes,”

-President  Kaboré  said as he was sworn in for his second term. 

 

The Jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region of Africa shows no signs of abating as four soldiers were killed in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso in May 2020.  Violent Islamist attacks across the West African Sahel region have doubled every year since 2015, according to a  published security brief by the African Center for Strategic Studies.  In 2019, there were  more than 700 such violent episodes, the ACSS brief reports.  Fatalities linked to these events have increased from 225 to 2,000 during the same period. This surge in violence has uprooted more than 900,000 people, including 500,000 in Burkina Faso in 2019 alone,  the brief notes.   Attacks are largely concentrated in central Mali, northern and eastern Burkina Faso, and western Niger.   

U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel and U.S. Ambassador meet with Burkina Faso President 

United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso Sandra E. Clark (right) with U.S. Special Envoy to Sahel Dr. J. Peter Pham (left) meet with President Kaboré Dec. 28, 2020 in  capital city Ouagadougou (credit: twitter.com/presidencebf) 

Dr. J. Peter Pham: Merci à l’Ambassadrice Sandra Clark et à l’équipe de  @Usembassyouaga pour l’accueil chaleureux à #BurkinaFaso. Félicitations à S.E.M. @rochkaborepf à l’occasion de l’inauguration de son deuxième mandat à la @presidencebf 

 

 

Président libérien George Weah    

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