Burkina Faso achievements in security receive no publicity, foreign minister says
Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré has stated that the media has underreported the achievements in national security by the junta-led government.
Traoré said this in a video interview, following a shooting incident that reportedly killed more than 100 soldiers on an army base in Burkina Faso.
The foreign minister referred to the media coverage of the shooting incident as a “media offensive,” reflecting the press's expectations.
According to him, the media has been used “purposefully to overshadow the concrete results being achieved” in Burkina Faso and the remaining two Sahel states Mali and Niger.
"We were surprised to see such violence in publications, whereas when we present the concrete results that have been achieved on the ground in terms of security, people don't share that as much," he said.
Burkina Faso's junta, led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré extended its rule for another five years, breaking its initial promise to restore civilian rule by July 1.
Captain Traoré has been in power since September 2022 after he seized power from Paul Henri Damiba who had also served as interim president after he removed former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in a coup in January 2022.
