Burkina Faso under Ibrahim Traoré’s revolutionary government has cut diplomatic ties with France, its former colonizer.
What was the final straw?
Investigative journalist @davidhundeyin breaks it down.
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4 years later, Gadaffi was dead and the entire Sahel belt was plunged into chaos.
So I guess we know whose side we should have taken. There's a lesson there.
Burkina Faso Introduces Approval For Foreign Study
Burkina Faso has introduced a new policy requiring all students; whether government-sponsored or private, to obtain government approval before studying abroad.
Aimed at aligning overseas training with the nation's development priorities and workforce needs, this measure seeks to boost local education quality by encouraging investment in domestic institutions.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso is growing its future through agriculture.
The Yibi community rice project is expected to produce 132 tonnes of rice, with 90% of the farmers being women. This community-led initiative is strengthening food security, creating opportunities, and supporting the country's journey toward greater food sovereignty.
Empowering local farmers means building a stronger and more self-reliant nation.
God bless Burkina Faso, God bless Africa. 🇧🇫❤️
Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system
Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.
That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.
A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.
Ibrahim Traoré: The Battle Over Africa Is About Uranium, Oil and Gold
Burkina Faso president Capt. Ibrahim Traoré says that worsening economic conditions in Europe are the reasons behind its renewed narrative assault on Africa in an attempt to snatch Africa's minerals.
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When Guinea Chose Independence Over France, France Tore Down What It Built Rather Than Leave It Behind.
In September 1958, France gave its African colonies a choice. Stay in the French Community with limited autonomy, or vote no and take full independence with nothing guaranteed in return. Every territory except Guinea chose to stay. Guinea, led by Ahmed Sekou Toure, voted no by more than 95 percent. "We prefer poverty in freedom to riches in slavery," Toure told Charles de Gaulle directly. On October 2, 1958, Guinea became the first French African colony to fully break away.
France's response was not diplomatic distance. It was deliberate destruction. Over a two month withdrawal, French officials stripped the country of everything they could carry and wrecked what they could not. They unscrewed lightbulbs from buildings. They destroyed the plans for Conakry's sewage pipeline system. They burned medicine rather than leave it for Guineans to use. Administrative files were destroyed. Public buildings were sabotaged. All financial and technical support was cut overnight, leaving Guinea without the civil servants, equipment or trained personnel needed to run a functioning state.
It did not stop there. By 1960, when Guinea launched its own currency, France's intelligence service drew up Operation Persil, a covert plan to flood Guinea's economy with counterfeit currency and trigger collapse. The plan leaked before it launched.
Cut off and isolated, Guinea turned to the Soviet Union for support and survived anyway, becoming proof that the cost of independence could be paid and the debt never owed in the first place.
The history books rarely mention what France was actually willing to destroy just to make an example out of one country saying no.
Now Burkina Faso is waiting for them.