September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
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. Background The coup came in the aftermath of the January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état. The January coup had been motivated by the Burkinabe government's inability to contain the jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso. A group of army officers overthrew President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, installing the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, a military junta, with Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba as its head. The coup was initially welcomed by many in Burkina Faso, as the previous government had become deeply unpopular due to its failure to deal with the insurgency. However, the new regime was also unable to defeat the rebels, and instead lost even more territory to Jihadists and other militants. By September 2022, nearly 40 per cent of Burkina Faso was controlled by non-state forces. Meanwhile, Damiba fired his defence minister and assumed the position himself. Several of the officers who had supported the January coup became dissatisfied with