IBRAHIM TRAORÉ WOULD LIKE TO BE THOMAS SANKARA’S HEIR
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✍️ Ibrahim Traoré, the military leader of Burkina Faso, has styled himself as the political heir of Thomas Sankara, but his record since taking power in 2022 is less ambitious than Sankara's agenda in the 1980s.
👉 Traoré's government has implemented reforms in domestic and economic policy 👉 Repression against trade unionists, civil society activists, and journalists 👉 Withdrawal from ECOWAS and establishment of a new geopolitical bloc with Mali and Niger 👉 Comparison to Thomas Sankara, with whom Traoré has been styled as a Pan-Africanist revolutionary
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