Burkina Faso: What you need to know about the interview between Captain Ibrahim TRAORE and the former President of Niger, Mahamadou ISSOUFOU.

The President of the Transition, Head of State, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE, received in audience a delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), led by the Mediator of the institution for Burkina Faso, the former President of Niger, Mahamadou ISSOUFOU.

At the end of the audience, the ECOWAS Mediator said he had come to Burkina « to assess the situation of the transition in the country in order to report to the Heads of State » at the next ordinary summit of the community on 4 December in Abuja, Nigeria.

The discussions focused mainly on the missions of the Transition, which can be summed up as « the reconquest of the territory under terrorist control, the resolution of the humanitarian crisis, the return to constitutional order, but also the mobilisation of resources to enable the Transition to carry out its missions », said Mahamadou Issoufou.

The issue of the Transition Monitoring and Evaluation Committee was also examined in a very frank atmosphere, according to the Mediator, who confided that he had a « perfect identity of views on all the issues discussed and welcomed the open-mindedness and openness to dialogue of the President of the Transition ».

Also mandated by the UN Secretary General, in connection with the African Union, ECOWAS and the G5 Sahel, to ensure a strategic assessment, security and development in the countries of the « geopolitical Sahel », which includes all countries under the threat of terrorism and organised crime, Mahamadou ISSOUFOU sought the support of the President of the Transition. « He promised me this support and I thank him for it, » he concluded.