General Honoré Nabéré Traoré (born 28 September 1957)« Honoré Traoré, chef d’Etat: des manifestants réclament le général Kouamé Lougué »
, fasozine.com, 31 octobre 2014 is a Burkinabé

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who served as the interim head of state of

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

for one day, from 31 October to 1 November 2014, following the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in the

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. Following his taking of power, he and other officials from the interim military administration declared

Isaac Zida Yacouba Isaac Zida (born 16 November 1965) is a Burkinabé military officer and politician, who served as the Interim Head of State of Burkina Faso in November 2014. Zida took power on an interim basis in the aftermath of the 2014 Burkinabé up ...

to be the interim

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being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

until power could be handed over to a

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that would oversee

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. A few weeks later, a civilian, Michel Kafando, was chosen to replace Zida as transitional head of state. Prior to the uprising, Traoré served as Compaoré's aide de camp.

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Living people Burkinabe military personnel 1957 births People from Boucle du Mouhoun Region 21st-century Burkinabe people {{BurkinaFaso-politician-stub