'For 400 years Westerners... killed us in every possible way' — Ibrahim Traore, Interim President of Burkina Faso
'They TRAUMATIZED us', but 'we LOVE them more than we love ourselves...
That's the Stockholm syndrome'
@RealPepeEscobar Why even negotiate with the U.S. ? Izrel continues to have the final say. Together they continue to assassinate & threaten spoiling negotiations.
Le Président du Congo supprime les visas pour tous les Africains dès 2027
🇨🇬 À l’occasion de la Journée de l’Afrique, Denis Sassou-Nguesso a annoncé une entrée libre pour tous les ressortissants africains à compter du 1er janvier prochain.
Russia supports the second awakening of Africa: the realization by Africans of the necessity to get rid of neocolonialism in its modern forms — Lavrov
https://t.co/0e9rlP0g6j
🚨🇧🇫 Burkina Faso tightens grip on $7B gold industry as foreign firms lose ground
Following a pan-African trend, Burkina Faso is pushing for economic sovereignty by shifting mining ownership from multinationals to local hands, reports APANews
🔸 6 of the West African nation’s 15 industrial gold mines are now majority-owned by Burkinabe companies
🔸 3 mines are under direct state control through SOPAMIB
🔸 Before the current administration came to power, only one industrial mine was locally operated – now local investors are buying up major mines
🔸 2025 gold output hit a record 94 tons (~3.02M oz), driven by mining reforms and a surge in artisanal production
'France remains the same
It may wear a different mask
But the reality is they want to DOMINATE African continent'
Prof. P.L.O. Lumumba, Founding Chairman of Africa Justice Group, to RT
Dangote Refinery Begins Direct Jet Fuel Supply to Ethiopian Airlines
Dangote Refinery has begun supplying jet fuel directly to Ethiopian Airlines, marking a major step for Africa’s energy and aviation sectors.
The deal strengthens intra-African trade, reduces reliance on fuel imports from outside the continent, and points to a growing shift toward regional energy self-sufficiency.
It also comes at a time when African airlines continue to face high fuel costs, with fuel accounting for about 40% of operating expenses for carriers on the continent.
African Proverb Of The Week
When the European colonizer first stepped foot in Africa, he did not meet a “poor”, “starving” or “corrupt” continent. Otherwise, he and his descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. What Africans know today as poverty, hunger and corruption are neither indigenous nor inevitable phenomena, but symptoms of a disease that was brought upon their Motherland by parasites who had no interest in “civilizing” anyone.
These parasites continue to bleed Africa dry through their corporations, military bases, NGOs, religious organizations, proprietary technologies, and a media industry infected with their hedonistic materialism. This West African proverb speaks to the need to secure what is valuable to us before it is too late. For Africa to truly prosper, it must break free of its parasitic relationship with the West, take control of its boundless, natural wealth and harness this wealth for the betterment of its people.
And for the first time in generations, the continent has an example to follow in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), whose member states, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, have seen rapid economic, political and cultural progress since severing ties with their former colonizer France, and nationalizing their resources.