Burkina Faso: Progressive People’s Revolution – time for national unity behind Ibrahim Traoré
Burkina Faso is living a decisive chapter of its history. Under the leadership of President Ibrahim Traoré, the Popular Progressive Revolution (RPP) has been set in motion. This is no mere political slogan. It is an ambitious, structuring societal project that encompasses every vital sector of our nation: agriculture, education, health, defence, the economy and social justice.
But no revolution succeeds without the people. No sovereignty project is completed without the massive support of the nation’s sons and daughters.
The time has come to call every Burkinabe to rise up and support the man who took the risk of breaking the chains of predation and humiliation.
The landmark projects led by President Traoré are well known. Building local processing factories to add value to our harvests, extending the electricity grid to rural areas, massively recruiting soldiers and auxiliary forces to secure our borders, and the village water supply programme so that clean drinking water is no longer a luxury. These are not acts of clientelism; they are the common good in action.
Yet critics abound. Foreign media, echoed by a few national voices with no popular base, try daily to discredit this momentum. They speak of “authoritarian drift” where the people speak of efficiency.
They cry “repression” where the masses see the end of impunity. Their goal? To discourage popular support, isolate the president, and derail the Popular Progressive Revolution before it bears all its fruit.
That is why the call to mobilisation is imperative. Supporting Ibrahim Traoré is not about embracing a personality cult.
It is about understanding that the nation’s common good depends on the continuation of these reforms, on political stability, and on a united front against enemies from within and without.
People of Burkina Faso, do not let slander divide what history calls upon us to unite.
The Popular Progressive Revolution needs your arms, your prayers, your vigilance and your voice.
The president has set the movement in motion. It is for us, the people standing tall, to accompany him to final victory. The common good commands it. The homeland awaits.
Olivier TOE
