{"id":52659,"date":"2024-05-26T15:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52659"},"modified":"2024-05-26T15:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:49:50","slug":"burkina-faso-military-rule-extended-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52659","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso military rule extended for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burkina Faso&#8217;s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks&#8217; chairman said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,&#8221; Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organising committee of the national dialogue process, said after the talks.<\/p>\n<p>He added that coup leader and acting president Ibrahim Traore could run in any elections at the end of the transition period.<\/p>\n<p>What was supposed to be a two-day national dialogue began earlier Saturday, ostensibly to chart a way back to civilian rule for the West African nation beset by jihadist violence.<\/p>\n<p>The army has governed Burkina Faso since 2022, carrying out two coups that it said were justified in large part by the persistent insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Jihadist rebels affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have waged a grinding insurgency since 2015 that has killed thousands and<br \/>\ndisplaced millions.<\/p>\n<p>AFP, BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso&#8217;s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks&#8217; chairman said. &#8220;The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,&#8221; Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organising committee of the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1593],"class_list":["post-52659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-burkina-faso-military-rule-extended-for-five-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}