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A video of former Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida, in military clothes, has been circulating since January 24 on social networks after a mutiny in Burkina Faso. It dates from 2014 and shows a statement made after the fall of Blaise Compaoré.
On Monday January 24, a mutiny launched by Burkinabe soldiers created confusion, with President Roch Kaboré being removed from office by the mutineers according to a statement. A video thus shows the former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, exiled in Canada since 2016, making an official declaration of political transition.
This is actually a video from 2014, when he was a lieutenant colonel. We find the original video filmed by AFP in this November 1, 2014 article from France 24. Isaac Zida had at the time been unanimously appointed by the Burkinabè army to lead the transition.