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Can the SAHEL Alliance cut Africa? An answer from Burkina Faso
World
Can the SAHEL Alliance cut Africa? An answer from Burkina Faso
October 14, 2024

Burkina Faso is demonstrating a driving force for many that was unexpected, Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Sahel, the resurgent Africa
August 6, 2024

Conscience. Action. Revolution. Africa in 2024 is the real protagonist of multipolar change.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Sahel, the resurgent Africa
World
‘Obama’s Man in Africa’ Under House Arrest as Popular Coup Rocks Gabon
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‘Obama’s Man in Africa’ Under House Arrest as Popular Coup Rocks Gabon
September 6, 2023

Before a military coup removed Gabon’s hopelessly corrupt President, Ali Bongo, from office, he was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war on Libya which destabilized the region may not have succeeded without him. By […]

First We Go for Moscow, Then We Take Beijing
July 30, 2023

Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.

Pepe Escobar
First We Go for Moscow, Then We Take Beijing
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Gold of Burkina Faso
January 18, 2016

An act of terrorism was committed in the heart of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on Friday night, January 15. Gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked Cappuccino restaurant and luxury Splendid Hotel. Hostages were released after a government counter-attack in the next morning as the siege ended. Over 20 men died, while hundreds were wounded. The attack was claimed by Al-Mourabitoun, a branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)…

Alexander Mezyaev
Did AFRICOM Engineer Military Coup in Burkina Faso?
September 21, 2015

There are significant indications that the U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, engineered a military coup in Burkina Faso in order to protect U.S. military bases in the impoverished West African nation. General Gilbert Diendere, the former military aide to the longtime Burkinabe dictator, Blaise Compaore, overthrew Burkina Faso’s interim democratic government and established a ruling junta inaptly called the “National Council for Democracy” with himself as the head…

Wayne Madsen
Did AFRICOM Engineer Military Coup in Burkina Faso?
World
Obama’s preventive coup in Burkina Faso
World
Obama’s preventive coup in Burkina Faso
November 5, 2014

After a popular uprising forced Burkina Faso’s longtime dictator Blaise Compaoré from power after a 27-year long reign supported by the United States and France, President Barack Obama had to move fast. The White House wanted to ensure that loyalists of Compaoré’s assassinated predecessor, Marxist icon Thomas Sankara, a man his mother, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maven Ann Dunham Soetoro, may have helped to topple in 1987, did not return to power in the landlocked West African nation…

Wayne Madsen