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Burkina Faso's Prime Minister Resign Over Insecurity

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Burkina Faso’s government resigned on Wednesday following several protests by the population denouncing its inability to fight recurrent jihadist attacks that plague the West African country every week. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who had already changed his military leadership over the security crisis, accepted Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire’s resignation, according to a presidential decree. The resignation of a prime minister requires the resignation of the entire government, according to Burkina Faso law. The secretary general of the government, Stepane Wenceslas Sanou, reading a presidential decree on television said. “It has put an end to the functions of Prime Minister of Mr. Dabirè.”
However the outgoing government will be required to remain in a caretaker capacity until a new one is formed, Sanou said. In accordance with the law, "the members of the outgoing government are responsible for the day-to-day running of the ministerial departments until a new government is formed," said Sanou.

"I invite all Burkinabè to mobilize to support the President of Faso and the new executive that will be put in place. I remain convinced that it is in unity of action that we will be able to meet the challenges facing our country and our people," Dabiré said on his Facebook page.

For several weeks, anger has been building against the executive branch.

“I remain convinced that it is through unity of action that will be able to meet the challenges our country and our people are facing,” he said.

The country, one of West Africa’s poorest, has been beset by attacks carried out by groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) since 2016, killing 2,000 people and forcing more than one million people to flee their homes.

Anger has spilled over since an attack by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group last month in which 49 military police officers and four civilians were killed, putting pressure on Kabore to make changes.

After his resignation, Dabire called on citizens to “support the president…. and the new executive that will be put in place” in a post on his Facebook page.

 

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