General Barthelemy Simpore was fired from his position as defence minister in the first decree, which was read aloud on national television.
Following a string of jihadist attacks, the leader of the Burkina Faso junta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who seized control in a coup in January, has appointed himself defence minister, according to decrees issued on Monday.
General Barthelemy Simpore was fired from his position as defence minister in the first decree, which was read aloud on national television.
In the second, it was stated that the president had assumed the minister of national defence and veterans' duties.
On January 24, a group of officers led by Damiba overthrew elected leader Roch Marc Christian Kabore after Kabore had failed to quell the Islamist insurgency that had originally started in Mali in 2012.
After spreading to Burkina Faso in 2015 and then to Niger, the insurgency is now being fought in much of the Sahel region. Ivory Coast and Togo are two West African coastline states where the violence has just started to spread.
The mini-revolution in Burkina Faso is the first since a transitional administration was installed there in March. Simpore, who had been chosen by Kabore, was kept on by Damiba at that time.
Another shift involved Colonel-Major Silas Keita, who was elevated to brigadier general and appointed minister delegate in charge of national defence. The only new minister who was introduced was him.
The change comes after a spate of deadly Islamist strikes in the landlocked nation of West Africa this month, where the insurgency has taken more than 2,000 lives.
In the landlocked nation of West Africa, where the insurgency has claimed more than 2,000 lives and compelled over 1.4 million people to flee their homes, the change comes after a spate of deadly Islamist strikes this month.
Despite the junta's assurance that security would be its priority, attacks have intensified since the beginning of the year.
It has been an especially violent September.
Two soldiers died and a dozen “terrorists” were killed Monday during an attack against a military detachment in Burkina Faso’s jihadist-hit north, the army said.
Less than a week earlier, security sources said separate attacks by suspected jihadists had killed nine people, mostly civilians, in the north.
A supply convoy travelling between Djibo and Bourzanga was attacked by an improvised explosive device blast on September 5, killing at least 35 civilians and injuring 37 more.
Early in September, numerous areas of Damiba had welcomed a "relative calm." He said that the army's "offensive activities" had been stepped up and that a process of engagement with certain armed groups had resulted in "dozens of teenagers" giving up their weapons.
But there are still a lot of attacks.
The government has no control over more than 40% of the nation.