Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has escalated his confrontation with influential Muslim scholars, saying that “the battle has begun”. Traore also recent

Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has escalated his confrontation with influential Muslim scholars, saying that “the battle has begun”. Traore also recently received Israel’s new ambassador to Burkina Faso, Simon Seroussi Link Why Traore has opened a new front with Burkina Faso’s Muslim community New legislation and arrests are driving a rift between Burkina Faso's military government and Muslim scholars.