West Africa: Burkina Faso Says It Foiled Coup Attempt Against President Traore

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Writing Open Channel While the U.S. attack on Caracas and other locations in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, occurred at almost the same latitude but on the African continent, Burkina Faso's president, Ibrahim Traoré, drew attention to an attempted coup d'état.

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Anti-imperialism in Burkina Faso has ceased to be a mere slogan: it is now a concrete economic policy While the world's cameras focused the bombings on Venezuela, another battle for sovereignty was waged in West Africa.In Burkina Faso, the government of Ibrahim Traoré thwarted an attempt at a coup d'état that sought to curb a political process of deep popular roots. More than an isolated episode, what happened puts in value the independent cours…