September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
| September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état | |||||||
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| Part of the Coup Belt | |||||||
Ibrahim Traoré | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Government of Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso Armed Forces dissidents | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba | Ibrahim Traoré | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| BAF loyalists | "Cobra" special forces | ||||||
A coup d'état took place in Burkina Faso on 30 September 2022, removing Interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal with the country's Islamist insurgency. Damiba had come to power in a coup d'état eight months earlier. Captain Ibrahim Traoré took over as interim leader.