Western Media Slanders Burkina Faso In New Documentary, The Spearhead Responds
On April 9, 2026, UK-based Western imperialist propaganda outlet @skynews uploaded a 16-minute documentary on YouTube, a documentary hosted by Sky News African correspondent @YousraElbagir, and aimed at portraying Burkina Faso as a poor, dangerous, unstable African nation ruled by an evil despot.
On April 10, Sky News re-uploaded this documentary with some revisions, amid a wave of backlash from a slowly awakening African audience.
In this report for the Spearhead, @barrahart examines the motives behind this “documentary”, weighs its claims against reality, and sheds light on an important connection between Sky News and the Western imperialist machine.
As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso has faced relentless attacks by Western-backed terrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members, Mali and Niger, have continued to record economic and political wins.
All 3 AES members have pointed to former colonizer France as a key sponsor of terror in the region – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself has made no bones about its intentions to revive its dwindling influence in Africa, and in so doing, shore up its own presently crumbling economy.
The motive behind Sky News’s latest imperialist propaganda piece is clear: to manufacture consent for regime change in Burkina Faso and the wider AES, so that Africa may be put back in its assigned place in the West’s global order.
It is up to the people of Africa to continue to resist this tired trick.
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