# Burkina Faso adopted a sweeping general-mobilization framework

Date: 2023

The transitional authorities adopted a general mobilization measure giving the executive extensive powers to requisition people and property and restrict civil liberties in the name of counterinsurgency.

## Drivers

- Traoré junta and AES: https://factrail.ai/drivers/traore-junta-aes

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/08/burkina-faso-emergency-law-targets-dissidents
- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/burkina-faso

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/burkina-general-mobilization-2023