{"id":160,"date":"2015-09-23T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/?p=160"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:38:15","slug":"the-return-of-michel-kafando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/2015\/09\/23\/the-return-of-michel-kafando\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Michel Kafando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, President Blaise Compaor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso was overthrown in an uprising. The people of Burkina Faso were displeased that Compaor\u00e9 had plans of staying in office after 27 years. The overthrowing of Compaor\u00e9 resulted in Michel Kafando serving as the interim.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Compaor\u00e9\u2019s overthrow, supporters of his regime created the Presidential Security Regiment, headed by General Diend\u00e9r\u00e9. Ever since the ousting of Compaor\u00e9, political unrest headed over much of Burkina Faso. Eventually, members of the PSR attempted a coup on the interim, Michel Kafando; forcing him to seek help and protection in France. Last week, Kafando was finally reinstated as president and slowly things are getting back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, the reason for the coup against Michel Kafando was because earlier, Kafando claimed that two prominent politicians, Achille Tapsoba and Eddie Kombo\u00efgo, would not be allowed to participate in the new elections because they are supporters of Blaise Compaor\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Similar, but on a much lesser scale, this relates to the class discussion relating to the fact that you can not always trust other states; but in this case it is about not being able to trust others within one\u2019s own state. Furthermore, we discussed how usually states want to be the hegemon, or the strongest nation. This can be related back to the situation in Burkina Faso because although it does not discuss states fighting for the top power, it is about political groups fighting for power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interim President in Burkina Faso reinstated\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQycloDETDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, President Blaise Compaor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso was overthrown in an uprising. The people of Burkina Faso were displeased that Compaor\u00e9 had plans of staying in office after 27 years. The overthrowing of Compaor\u00e9 resulted in Michel Kafando serving as the interim. Prior to Compaor\u00e9\u2019s overthrow, supporters of his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31563,29790,31572],"tags":[8448],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-section-2","category-fall-2015","category-world-leaders","tag-africa","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}