Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s recent address in Ouahigouya has laid bare deep fissures within Burkina Faso’s ruling junta, exposing a leadership struggling to maintain cohesion through fear rather than strategy. The blunt, unfiltered…
Author: Cécile Mboua
Journalist
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