African President of the Week: Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traore
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other world leaders including Mali's Ibrahim Traore during the Flower Laying Ceremony at the Eternal Flame in Moscow for WWII Victory Day, photo courtesy of APT Moscow, 5/2025 The Background In late January 2022, under the constant violent invasion by ISIS of the Sahel , Al'Qaida in the Land of Islamic Maghreb , Jamaat Nusrat (JNIM) , and waves of Islamic Extremists besieging West Africa for territory and natural resources, the military of Burkina Faso deposed their then, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore , Prime Minister Lassina Zerbo , & Head of Parliament Alassane Sakande , placing all under military house arrest. The former Bankers, politicians, and geophysicians, were accused of being incapable of stopping the onslaught of Jihadists attacks across the country. They were also suspected of grossly inequiping of supplies to soldiers at war, coordinating with the Jihadists and other foreign agents to ...
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