{"id":177934,"date":"2015-12-29T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=177934"},"modified":"2015-12-29T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:38:14","slug":"christian-kabore-sworn-in-as-burkina-faso-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=177934","title":{"rendered":"Christian Kabore sworn in as Burkina Faso president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso\u00a0Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been sworn in as the country&#8217;s new president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The former banker was\u00a0sworn into office on Tuesday\u00a0following his victory in November&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>This marks a turning point in the country&#8217;s recent political history following the uprising that saw former leader <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/31\/blaise-compaore-steps-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaise Compaore step down<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>from power in 2014<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that Mr Kabore who was sworn in as thousands cheered, &#8220;was an ally of Mr Compaore before the two fell out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177679\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/presidential-plane-800x4452.jpg\" alt=\"presidential-plane-800x445\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/presidential-plane-800x4452.jpg 800w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/presidential-plane-800x4452-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by several African Heads of state including Ghana&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/12\/29\/mahama-attends-inauguration-of-new-burkinabe-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">President John Dramani Mahama<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and\u00a0Former President Jerry John Rawlings.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two dozen soldiers were arrested a day before the ceremony with reports indicating that they plotting to free the jailed leader of the coup in September, Gen Gilbert Diendere.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kabore said he would defend the constitution and &#8220;ensure justice for all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso\u00a0Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been sworn in as the country&#8217;s new president. The former banker was\u00a0sworn into office on Tuesday\u00a0following his victory in November&#8217;s elections. This marks a turning point in the country&#8217;s recent political history following the uprising that saw former leader Blaise Compaore step down from power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":177935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-177934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}