Burkina Faso

Sovereignty Is The Foundation Of Democracy

July 12, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, Breakthrough News. Educate! Burkina Faso, Democracy, Ibrahim Traore, Sahel region, Sovereignty

When Burkina Faso’s transitional President Captain Ibrahim Traoré argued earlier this year that democracy cannot exist without sovereignty, international headlines were quick to conclude that he had rejected democracy altogether. Across much of the Western media, his remarks were presented as further evidence that the military-led governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger were abandoning democratic governance in favor of authoritarian rule. But supporters of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) insisted that Traoré’s intervention was being misunderstood.

Burkina Faso Rejects EU Resolution As ‘Neo-Colonial’ Interference

June 27, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, Breakthrough News. Educate! Burkina Faso, colonization, European Union (EU), Ibrahim Traore

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on June 18, criticizing Burkina Faso’s human rights record, civic freedoms, and governance under the government led by popular leader Ibrahim Traore. In response, Burkina Faso summoned the Head of the European Union Delegation in Ouagadougou, rejecting the resolution as an infringement on its sovereignty and accusing European lawmakers of relying on misinformation and a neo-colonial understanding of African affairs. The European Parliament passed the resolution with 476 votes to 11, and 75 abstentions.

The Democracy Of The Strongest Is Always The Best

May 1, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Assassination, Burkina Faso, colonization, Thomas Sankara

On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated alongside twelve of his senior officials. At the time, which I remember well, there was great confusion as to who had carried out this unforgivable act. The assassins, too afraid to face Sankara, shot him from behind, hitting him multiple times before targeting those who were at the meeting with him. Shortly thereafter, one of Sankara’s associates, Blaise Compaoré, defended the coup by claiming that Sankara had endangered relations with France and Côte d’Ivoire, a close French ally.

Burkina Faso Launches Five-Year Plan

March 17, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Create! Burkina Faso, Five Year Plans, Ibrahim Traore, Poverty Reduction

Burkina Faso launched its 64-billion-dollar National Development Plan (NDP) for 2026–2030, earlier this week on March 9. The plan is one of the largest economic programs ever proposed in the Sahel. About two-thirds of this money will be raised domestically from the revenues generated by state-owned enterprises and through citizen shareholding programs. “Using our sovereign resources, we can sustainably transform our economy and improve the lives of our people,” insisted Finance Minister Aboubakar Nacanabo, highlighting the significance of this break from the previous regime’s reliance on external funding.

Assassination Plot Against President Ibrahim Traore Foiled

January 10, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Françafrique, French neo-colonialism, Ibrahim Traore

Burkina Faso’s security forces foiled a plot to kill President Ibrahim Traoré and disable a drone base, ahead of a planned military invasion, the country’s minister of security, Mahamadou Sana, announced on January 6. “Our intelligence services intercepted this operation in the final hours,” he said in a late-night TV broadcast. As per a recording obtained by security agents allegedly showing conspirators discussing the plan, the operation was set to start an hour before midnight on January 3. “Beginning with the neutralization of Comrade Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Head of State and President of Faso, either at point-blank range or through an operation to mine his residence,” Sana said, “there were to be efforts to put the drone base out of service, and a ground military intervention by external forces.”

Reports Emerge Of Failed Coup Attempt In Burkina Faso

January 4, 2026 Ghana The Motherland. Resist! Burkina Faso, Coup Attempt, Coups, Ibrahim Traore

An alleged attempt to destabilize the Burkinabe government, orchestrated from Lomé in Togo by former Burkinabe transitional president Paul Henri Damiba, was thwarted on the night of Saturday, January 3, 2026, by the defense and security forces, according to multiple sources. According to various sources, well-placed security sources, an operation aimed at overthrowing Burkina Faso's institutions, were about to be launched on Saturday, January 3, around 11:00 PM GMT. The operation was foiled thanks to the arrest of the alleged mastermind of the plot.

Burkina Faso Suspends Participation In Francophone Judicial Body

December 18, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Burkina Faso, colonization, France, Legal System, Sovereignty

In yet another move away from Françafrique, Burkina Faso’s High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) announced on December 15 its decision to suspend participation in the Francophone Network of Judicial Councils, known by its French acronym, RFCMJ. Headquartered in Quebec, a French-speaking part of Canada, the organization seeks to “develop common standards” in judiciaries of Francophone countries. Over half of its 23 members are former colonies in Africa. Burkina Faso’s CSM was one of the five judicial councils in RFCMJ’s current bureau, alongside Guinea, Lebanon, Quebec, and France, which presides over it.

Agroecology Is A Form Of Resistance And Decolonization

November 26, 2025 Pedro Stropasolas, People's Dispatch. Create! Agroecology, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Decolonization, Desertification, Food sovereignity, Ibrahim Traore, Pan Africanism, Thomas Sankara

In Burkina Faso, agroecology flourishes as an act of resistance. In a country where more than 80% of the active population makes their living off agriculture, peasant movements and social organizations have defended the production of healthy food and food self-sufficiency as a path to liberation from the wounds left by French neocolonialism. Leading this effort is the Yelemani Association, founded in 2009 by Blandine Sankara, sister of revolutionary leader and former president Thomas Sankara, who governed the country from 1983 to 1987, when he was assassinated.

Burkina Faso Is Moving Towards Self-Sufficiency In Food Production

November 13, 2025 Pedro Stropasolas, People's Dispatch. Create! Agrarian Reform, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Food Sovereignty, Ibrahim Traore, Pan Africanism, Thomas Sankara

Dependence on foreign aid, political instability, chronic poverty, and the effects of climate change are among the obstacles preventing Burkina Faso from achieving its longed-for food sovereignty. Currently, about 80% of the population of the Sahelian nation is involved in agricultural activity, which accounts for a third of the GDP. Even so, the country still imports more than 200,000 tons of rice per year. In response to this challenge, President Ibrahim Traoré’s government launched the so-called Agricultural Offensive in 2023, which has been revolutionizing the rural environment and serving as a model for the continent.

Burkina Faso Is A Place Of Dignity, Not Expulsion

October 15, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Burkina Faso, Donald Trump, Ibrahim Traore, Immigration, mass deportations, United States

“Burkina Faso is a place of dignity … not a place of expulsion,” said its Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s deportation deal. Deeming Trump’s proposal for Burkina Faso to accept foreign nationals he is deporting from the US as “indecent”, he said it was “totally contrary to the value of dignity, which is … the very essence of the vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré.” Coming to power in 2022 after the ouster of Roch Kaboré’s unpopular regime, propped up by France, Traoré expelled French troops, consolidating his mass support in the country. His avowed anti-imperialism and pan-Africanism have won him admirers across Africa and Black and Afro-descendant communities in the West.

Venezuela Closes Embassies In Norway And Australia

October 14, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Australia, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Embassies, Foreign Relations, Multipolar World, Norway, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia. “As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. Venezuela explained that bilateral relations and consular assistance for the Venezuelan community in Norway and Australia “will be efficiently addressed through concurrent diplomatic missions, the details of which will be announced in the coming days.”

France Is A State Sponsor Of Terror, AES Countries Declare

October 7, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, France, French colonialism, Mali, Niger, Sahel region, UN General Assembly, United Nations (UN)

“Terrorism is being used” by imperialist forces “to pillage African resources,” said Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister Rimtalba Ouédraogo in his address at the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA). “A case in point is France,” whose troops Burkina Faso expelled in early 2023. Mali, which had also expelled French troops the year before, had sought a meeting of the UN Security Council in 2022, “so that my country could provide irrefutable proof of France’s support for terrorist activities,” recalled its Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga in his address. “So far, this request has not been followed up on,” while France continues its “sabotage”.

AES Countries Exit ICC, Denounce It As Instrument Of Neo-Colonial Repression

September 24, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Coups, Imperialism, International Criminal Court (ICC), Mali, Neocolonialism, Niger

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) announced its immediate withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday, condemning it as a tool of “imperialism”, silent about the worst crimes by the West and its allies while selectively pursuing its opponents. Ratifying the Rome Statute in the early 2000s, its three member countries – Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – have been members of the ICC for over three decades. “However, over time, they have come to observe that this jurisdiction has transformed into an instrument of neo-colonial repression in the hands of imperialism, thereby becoming the global example of selective justice,” states the AES communique on September 22.

Thomas Sankara’s Legacy Is Alive In The Sahel

August 15, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, Burkina Faso, Revolution, Thomas Sankara

In the months after the 1987 coup in Burkina Faso that killed President Thomas Sankara, screen printers in the capital, Ouagadougou, began to churn out shirts with Sankara’s face on them. The image soon spread throughout the country. Blaise Compaoré, Sankara’s former minister of justice, went on to rule the country until 2014. He was suspected from the outset of orchestrating Sankara’s murder, but it would take the Burkinabé courts until 2021–2022 to find him guilty. By then, he had long fled to Côte d’Ivoire, where he remains a fugitive. Throughout his time in office, Compaoré claimed to be a follower of Sankara – a political legacy he could not afford to disavow.

Brother Of Pan-Africanist Leader Thomas Sankara Grateful For Traore

August 13, 2025 Pedro Stropasolas, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Anti-colonialism, Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, Neocolonialism, Pan Africanism, Thomas Sankara

We’re standing in front of the Thomas Sankara Memorial, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital. Inaugurated on May 17 in the presence of various African heads of state and public figures, the site symbolizes a collective desire to preserve the legacy of the Burkinabé pan-Africanist leader Thomas Sankara and his 12 comrades who were assassinated in the 1987 coup d’état. The massacre, orchestrated by Sankara’s then-ally Blaise Compaoré – who became president and ruled until 2014 with support from France – interrupted a wave of transformative reforms meant to eliminate the scars of neocolonialism in the Sahel nation. In just four years, Sankara redistributed land to peasants and raised the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. His radical transformation also extended to public health: 2.5 million children were vaccinated against meningitis, yellow fever, and measles.

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