GADDAFI SPOKESMAN DEFENDS TRAORE

As the West increasingly feels threatened by the revolutionary process underway in the Sahel, Africans worldwide have come out in firm defence of the motherland. 

Adding to the mix of voices in support of Burkina Faso’s revolution is the assassinated Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s (1942-2011) spokesperson, Moussa Ibrahim. If there is someone as well versed on the West’s schemes against Africa, it would be Ibrahim, as he witnessed NATO dismantle Africa’s once-most prosperous country, fracturing it and turning the North African country into an open-air slave market, far from the bastion of African progress it represented under Gaddafi. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) General Michael Langley accusing Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré of using gold his government reclaimed from foreign companies to protect his ‘junta regime’ is the same old play to manufacture consent for an invasion, Ibrahim argues. 

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formed the Alliance of Sahel States on 6 July 2024 after successfully ousting Western-aligned leaders following people-backed coups d'état. Since then, they have cooperated on defence, economics, and foreign policy, and launched an AES passport. They are also working on creating a sovereign currency. The goal is to form a federal state encompassing their territories, with the dream of eventually uniting the African continent under one people-oriented governance.

Ibrahim listed the revolutionary leaders Africa has lost to imperial machinations, including the assassinated Democratic Republic of the Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) and ousted Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72).

Africans must unite and stand together in defence of Burkina Faso if we are to successfully repel the imperialist onslaught against Burkina Faso, no less with a Black face leading the charge, a sad parallel with US President Barack Obama’s ouster of Gaddafi.

Video credit: @_moussa_ibrahim (X)

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