Burkina Faso is not led by a person close to deposed President Blaise Compaoré. General Gilbert Diendéré, ex-Chief of Defence under Compaoré, was appointed on Thursday 17^th September at the head of the National Council for Democratie (CND), new power put in place by the putschist soldiers who removed President Michel Kafando and dissolved the government.

“Brigardier General Gilbert Diendéré will assume the position of president of the CND”, a communiqué read on the public television by Lieutenant-Colonel Mamadou Bamba pointed out.

According to the same communiqué, a curfew from 19:00 hours to 6:00 hours has been instituted, and the land and air borders closed until further notice.

Les putschistes du Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP), un corps d'élite de l'armée burkinabè qui était l’un des piliers du régime de Blaise Compaoré, avaient annoncé plus tôt la dissolution des institutions de transition du pays.The putschists from the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP), an elite corps of the Burkinabe army which was one of the pillars of the Blaise Compaoré regime, announced earlier the dissolution of the interim institutions in the country.

General Diendéré is a comrade-in-arms of Blaise Compaoré who was ousted by street protests in October 2014 after 27 years. Present at his side during the 1987 coup d’état, when Mr. Compaoré deposed President Thomas Sankara, General Diendéré was in charge of RSP. He was dismissed last year, a few weeks after the escape of the ex-president.