Who is Ibrahim Traore?
Ibrahim Traore is a Burkinabè military officer who has been the interim leader of Burkina Faso since the 30 September 2022 coup d’état which ousted interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. At age 34, Traoré is currently the youngest serving president in the world.
Biography
Ibrahim Traore was born in Kéra, Burkina Faso, in 1988. After graduating from high school in Bobo-Dioulasso, he studied geology at the University of Ouagadougou. There, he was a member of the Muslim Student Association and the Marxist Association nationale des étudiants du Burkina (ANEB). He graduated with honors.
In 2009, Traoré joined the Burkina Faso army. He graduated from the Georges-Namoano Military Academy and was sent to Morocco for anti-aircraft training. He was then transferred to an infantry unit in Kaya, a town in northern Burkina Faso.
In 2014, Traoré was promoted to lieutenant and joined MINUSMA, a United Nations peacekeeping force involved in the Mali War. In 2018, he was cited as one of the MINUSMA soldiers who “showed courage” during major rebel attacks in the Tombouctou Region.
Traore then returned to Burkina Faso, where he assisted in operations against the escalating jihadist insurgency. He fought at Djibo, in the “Otapuanu offensive” of 2019, and several other counter-insurgency operations in the country’s north. He was promoted to captain in 2020.
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Age
Ibrahim Traore is currently 35 years old. He was born in 1988.