The move clears the way for General Assimi Goita to lead the west African country until at least 2030, despite the military government’s initial pledge to...
The West’s insistence on democracy ignores historical reality. No nation has industrialized under full democracy—stability, discipline, and long-term vision come first. Burkina Faso, under Traoré, has...
President of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré was in the Kremlin, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Captain...
Timbkieta Daniel Sawadogo, Head of the Russian-African Club branch in Burkina Faso and other countries of the Sahel States Confederation, and former Cultural Attaché of Burkina...
The problem in Nigeria is not the lack of money; it is the deliberate mismanagement of resources and an embarrassing lack of empathy by those in...
Democracy, in its pure form, is beautiful. But beauty without substance is deception. Captain Ibrahim Traoré may have ruffled feathers, but his boldness is refreshing. His...
Russia's MFA has earlier assured: "we will continue supporting it with the supply of arms and hardware and personnel training, including peacekeepers, as it is very...
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger rank among the world’s poorest nations and have struggled with a decade-long Islamist insurgency linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
The three countries formally notified ECOWAS of their plan for an “immediate” withdrawal in January 2024, citing the organisation’s excessive dependence on France in particular.
They also believe that the West African organisation has not helped them enough to fight jihadist violence. ECOWAS, they argue, is subservient to their former colonial...