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Burkina Faso: The challenged President
It has been two months since the army was stirred by a grunt, attributed by the presidency spokesman to problems of unpaid housing allowances. It seems that the army disappointment is deeper because of the hierarchy congestion and the enrichment of the military brass, causing the hatred and resentment within the bottom and the lower categories of the Army, the true pillar of Compaoré regime which leads the Burkina Faso with “an iron fist”. As to ease down the situation, the Chief of Staff, Dominique Djindjéré was replaced by General Honoré Naber Traoré and the bonuses claimed have been paid; but this promptness has just ulcerated part of the population, which has been protesting, in vain, for months against their living conditions; as well as the Capital business shops’s owners and traders did not appreciate to be plundered, in impunity, by military elements. So President Compaoré has appointed Luc Adolphe Tiao as a new Prime Minister. This former journalist and diplomat, but politically inexperienced, will be in charge of enhancing a dialogue with a population tired of an authoritarian regime, used to govern without consultation and which has done so much emptiness all around, as well as for the President, “regarded as the Doer of peace and war in West Africa”, who has decided to assume the Ministry of Defense in his new government, and who “spent so much time in recent years to manage crises of its neighbors (Ivory Coast, Guinea …) to the degree of neglecting those of his citizens” has stated one of his close entourage.