US-trained Yacouba Isaac Zida takes power in Burkina Faso via military coup: "A U.S.-trained officer, Lt. Col. Yacouba Isaac Zida seized power, and established a transitional government. Just two years earlier, he had attended a counterterrorism training course at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, sponsored by the U.S. Joint Special Operations University. He also attended a military intelligence course in Botswana, financed by the U.S. government. The next year, in 2015, another coup overthrew Zida’s transitional government"