In 2020 Burkinabé general election, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was elected for his second term as President. Kaboré's government faced regular protests due to the handling of the ongoing jihadi crisis in the country. On December 2021, Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré was fired from his post amid an escalating security crisis.[14] On 22 January 2022, the anti-government protests erupted in the capital.