Burkina Faso: National unity, the last bastion against imperialist subversion
Frustrated by their repeated failures in Burkina Faso, the imperialist powers are deploying their most insidious weapon: ethnic divisions. After sponsoring terrorism through groups like JNIM and AQMI to sow chaos, and attempting destabilization via Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba; that pawn of Françafrique removed in September 2022, the imperialist cabal and their satellites are now upping the ante. Their goal is to fracture the country in order to reclaim its mineral and energy resources by imposing their own vision.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, installed in January 2022 with the covert support of neocolonial forces, promised stability but served as an antechamber to recolonization.
His removal by Captain Ibrahim Traoré marked a turning point: the termination of military agreements, the expulsion of French troops, partnerships with Russia, and the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
Faced with this reaffirmed sovereignty, Western media and complicit NGOs are amplifying tensions between the Fulani, Mossi, and Gurunsi peoples, accusing Traoré of “ethnic purges.” This is pure propaganda aimed at justifying a disguised humanitarian intervention.
Africa has paid dearly for such manipulations. In Rwanda in 1994, the RTLM radio station, backed by Belgian and French interests, incited Hutus against Tutsis, leading to a genocide that claimed one million lives.
In the Central African Republic since 2013, the Séléka (Muslim) and anti-Balaka (Christian) militias, manipulated by mining interests, have devastated Bangui.
In Kenya (2007) and Côte d’Ivoire (2010), elections turned into ethnically driven violence under foreign influence.
These conflicts are not spontaneous; they block economic integration, perpetuate dependency, and plunder the continent’s wealth.
Our ethnic and cultural diversity is a richness, the foundation of our shared heritage. It must never be turned into political fault lines.
The real enemies of peace and development in Africa are not neighbours of another ethnicity, but rather those who; from outside or serving from within; fuel these hatreds to advance geopolitical and economic interests.
Olivier TOE
