fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week agoAfrica's youngest leader, a friend of Russia, is celebrated by some and criticized by others
As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso's junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore were plastered over Russian state media... Traore, who was in Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, is Africa's youngest leader at 37, a strong appeal for the continent's young population... Since coming to power in September 2022⦠he has dwelt on a rhetoric of self-reliance and independence from the West.