Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is the current leader of Burkina Faso after staging a coup against former president Roch Kaboré in January.
Trained by the US and France in warfare, he had been at the forefront of the country’s fight against Islamist militants.
He even wrote a book on the subject last year called West African Armies and Terrorism: Uncertain Responses?
In the statement read on his behalf by the captain who announced the January coup, Lt-Col Damiba cited the deteriorating security situation as the chief reason for overthrowing Mr Kaboré.
Source: BBC
