Burkina Faso: Three Years of Broken Promises By Inés M. Pousadela Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 27 2025 (IPS) - Three years ago, Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso with two promises that have proved hollow: to address the country’s deepening security crisis and restore civilian rule. Now he has postponed elections until 2029, dissolved the independent electoral commission and pulled the country out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Burkina Faso has become a military dictatorship. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/burkina-faso-three-years-of-broken-promises/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ICC_Judges_Officials_Under_US_Sanctions_Live_Under_Rigid_Isolation_Unpacking_COPs_Politically_Charge Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.