Captain Ibrahim Traore is Burkina Faso President
Plot to assassinate President Traoré allegedly financed from abroad.
The military government of Burkina Faso has announced the disruption of a plot to assassinate the nation's leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, and destabilize the state.
Authorities, cited in a BBC report, allege the plan was funded from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire. There has been no immediate comment from Ivorian officials or from former leader Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
Captain Traoré came to power in a September 2022 coup, underscoring the ongoing political volatility in the West African nation.
Source: @BBC News Africa and GhanaWeb.