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Why Washington is Worried About Burkina Faso’s Young Revolutionary Leader (www.mintpressnews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations...Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance...Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist

Oh no, how terrible.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

He's selling his country to Russia. From Scylla to Charybdis…