Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Captain Ibrahim Traore:
‘For 400 years, Western Imperialists came to deport us to foreign lands and kill us in every possible way. But black people have always resisted.
But why is it today we can’t see this, stand up to it, and turn the tide?
We love them more than we love ourselves. That’s Stockholm Syndrome. That’s the problem. And if we don’t realise that, we are doomed, because they’ll keep finishing us off one way or the other.’
In a continent where so many of its leaders act as vassals of Europe and the United States, Ibrahim Traore and a few others stand as the defiant exceptions that shows Africans that there is another way, an alternative, we don't need to surrender to survive.
🇧🇫|Burkina Faso Has Taken Back the Keys to Its Own Gold. France Is Furious.
Captain Ibrahim Traoré just did what no Burkinabè leader has done since independence.
He built a gold refinery.
Not in Paris. Not in London. Not in Toronto. In Ouagadougou.
For decades, France and its mining companies dug up Burkina Faso’s gold, shipped it out raw, and sent the profits to Europe. The Burkinabè people got nothing. The children who worked in the tunnels got nothing. The villages with poisoned water got nothing.
50% of everything Burkina Faso exported went straight into the French treasury. That was the deal. That was the colonial tax. That was the price of using the CFA franc.
They took $500 billion in gold. They left $10 billion behind. And they called it “development.”
Captain Traoré said: Enough.
The new refinery RAFFINOR-BF cost $19 million. It can process 164 tonnes of gold a year. It will scale up to 515 tonnes. It will process gold for the entire region. It will keep the value chain in Burkina Faso.
Traoré said: “Our ambition is no longer to be a country that digs and ships. We will refine here. We will certify here. We will control here.”
The mine minister said: “This is the day we take back the keys to our own house.”
France cut diplomatic ties with Burkina Faso in June 2026. Traoré didn’t blink. He built a refinery instead.
Mali is building its own refinery with Russia. Niger nationalized French uranium. Guinea and Ghana are restricting raw gold exports. The whole Sahel is waking up.
The colonialists are losing Africa. One refinery at a time.
Captain Ibrahim Traoré is not a “leader.” He is a liberator. He is not “pro-Western” or “pro-Russian.” He is pro-Burkina Faso. And that is exactly why France hates him.
Burkina Faso’s gold belongs to the Burkinabè people. Today, for the first time, that is not just a slogan. It is a fact..
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• Reported range: 14,000 km
• Capability: Can reach the United States
A massive shift in their military deterrence. 🚀💥🔥🇮🇷🇺🇸
🚨 Breaking: Iran has started using what it promised, and behold, the Khorramshahr-4 missile with a cluster warhead is descending upon the heads of the tyrants... 🚀💥🔥🇮🇷
🚨 Breaking: Iranian hypersonic missiles targeted an Israeli security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv.
More than 10 IDF generals responsible for planning attacks against Iranian leader Khamenei were killed. 🚀💥💀🔥
BREAKING: The Iraqi Foreign Minister has Announced the Full Withdrawal of American Troops from Iraq.
One country cleaned from the US cancer and soon the others will follow through.
WE WON’T ALLOW ANY US PRESENCE IN THE REGION ANYMORE!
THIS IS SATANIC✡️🇮🇱
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside to absorb the blast.
Reports confirm one of the children inside is now permanently blinded for life.
When humanity leaves the building and unbridled arrogance replaces it.
This is what happens when a nation of 10 million chosen ones hide behind the US while picking its pockets and taking it to war. Tell me any Arab state that would be allowed to act in this manner? Israel would have attacked the TV studio with an American bomb live on air.
Is America winning yet?
Thanks ad ever to Mehdi Hasan and Al Jazeera for the clip.
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