The US-EU-NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Capt. Ibrahim Traoré

The US-EU-NATO’s regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Capt. Ibrahim Traoré

by Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project. On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s a…

Ibrahim Traoré, from Burkina Faso, is remaking his nation and, in the process, is winning enemies in the West. Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops and Western companies, and has aligned his country with Russia, Cuba and Venezuela. Traoré, who promotes pan-African unity and national self-sufficiency, while surviving coup attempts, is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has sparked cri…

Honored delegates, heads of state, leaders of nations, distinguished representatives of peoples great and small! I greet you not as a career diplomat or as a man bred for banquet halls and handshakes. I do not come to you speaking the practiced language of polished politics. I come to you as a soldier of my people, as a guardian of a wounded land, as a son of a continent that has borne the world's cross but never its crown. (This is a translatio…

By Fundación para la integración Latinoamericana / Africa in Summary /16 May 2025. Ibrahim Traoré’s leadership in Burkina Faso has awakened echoes of the past. As in the times of his historical reference Thomas Sankara, the young African president challenges the international order with a nationalist and pan-African vision. This attitude [...] La entrada Burkina Faso. From Sankara’s legacy to Traoré’s appearance was first published in Summary La…

Ibrahim Traore il nuovo Thomas Sankara Africano?

L’OPINIONE. LA GRANDE STORIA DEL NOSTRO TEMPO NON È FATTA SOLO E NON NECESSARIAMENTE DALLE PRINCIPALI SUPERPOTENZE I cliché informativi ci hanno insegnato a distrarci dall’essenziale e a non vedere la grandezza dei veri giganti di oggi. Uno di loro è Ibrahim Traore, Presidente ad interim del Burkina Faso (“Patria della gente onesta”), precedentemente chiamato Alto Volta. Il Paese ospita circa 21 milioni di persone ed è uno dei più poveri al mond…

Observatorio de Comunicación y Democracia (Comunican) Ibrahim Traoré's leadership in Burkina Faso has awakened echoes of the past. As in the times of his historical reference Thomas Sankara, the young African president challenges the international order with a nationalist and pan-African vision. This attitude places him in the sights of the great powers, as happened with emblematic figures such as Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Amílcar Cabral (Guinea-…