# Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 30 September 2022 Captain [Ibrahim Traoré](/people/ibrahim-traore) announced on national television the overthrow of junta president Paul-Henri Damiba, the dissolution of the government, and the suspension of the constitution. Borders were closed and a curfew declared.

## Context

He spoke for officers who had helped Damiba seize power in January. Damiba is unresolved. He was sworn interim president on 21 October 2022.

30 September TV statement; 21 October oath. Stored as one 30 September 2022 Fact. Keep Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution on 2022-09-30 separate from neighbouring coup, AES, and ECOWAS instruments.

The interim president of Burkina Faso is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can announce a coup on television, take an oath, and sign a charter. He does not write a UN document as if he were the Secretariat, and he does not invent a unique jihadist death integer here.

## Evidence and sources

Reuters carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the owned junta-AES driver: a completed second coup suspending the constitution.

## What is established and what is not

Established: He announced Damiba’s removal, dissolved the government, and suspended the constitution on 30 September 2022.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Sharing execution with other officers is not a reason to drop 30 September 2022.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution, not a later speech about Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution on 2022-09-30 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Traoré announces the overthrow of Damiba and suspends the constitution into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He announced and led the ouster. Sharing execution with other officers is not a reason to drop 30 September 2022. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ibrahim Traoré: https://factrail.ai/people/ibrahim-traore

## Drivers

- Traoré junta and AES: https://factrail.ai/drivers/traore-junta-aes
- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness
- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space

## Sources

- https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20220930/chairperson-african-union-commission-unequivocally-condemns-second-takeover
- https://www.ecowas.int/communique-of-the-ecowas-commission-on-the-socio-political-situation-in-burkina-faso/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-burkina-faso-capital-reuters-witnesses-2022-09-30/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-army-captain-announces-overthrow-military-government-2022-09-30/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bf-traore-coup-2022