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I will burst the bubble. There is no reason to believe this is true.
The official website for The Office of the President of Burkina Faso makes no mention of this anywhere. Neither does the official facebook page, which is the governments most active social media platform, or on Ibrahim Traore’s personal twitter
An Instagram page with a censored name for a huge news announcement being the only source should be a large red flag for Hexbear readers. I will be making a larger effortpost on this, but there is much misinformation online about the AES and Burkina Faso, including misinformation about positive developments. As should always be the case, we must keep a sharp eye for news about anti western hegemony states, and do more research for before blinding believing any social media screenshots as real sources.
I notice that many of these dubious posts about the AES are on ChapoTrapHouse, and not the news comm or megathread, and I believe this is because the news areas have much stricter standards about sources and more skeptical audiences
Burkina Faso and the Sahel Confederation have made many actual positive developments, and these real events are being obscured by posts such as these
Here is actual news about positive, on the ground developments in Burkina Faso and the Sahel Confederation
Burkina Faso completes nationalisation of five gold mining assets
Alliance of Sahel States puts on show of unity through inaugural games
Burkina Faso harvests first plaintains as part of the Presidential Initiative For Agricultural Production And Food Self-sufficiency
Burkina Faso celebrates first ever kidney transplant
Thanks for the reality check. I was a bit suspicious - panafricanism is great and all, but this would be a bit of a wild plan to announce as the leader of a single nation state without at least having a few others pipe up and say they're on board.
East Africa can't even federate after literally decades of multiple stable states trying, how would a confederation of three juntas who are losing land to jihadists constantly be able to do it lmao