IMPERIALISTS ARE FUNDING T*RRORISTS

‘It's not t*rrorism, it's imperialism. All the imperialist countries finance these fighters.’ These were the words of Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@CapitaineIb226 on X) during an interview with RT en Français (@rtenfrancais on X) that aired on 10 May.

This is not the first time that an official from Africa’s Sahel region has accused Western or Western-allied countries of aiding t*rrorists. In 2022, Mali's Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga (@Col_Maiga on X) said France had provided arms, ammunition and intelligence to t*rrorist organisations that it claimed to be fighting during its now-dissolved Operation Barkhane, essentially a French military occupation of Mali. Shortly thereafter, Mali's Minister of Foreign Affair Abdoulaye Diop (@AbdoulayeDiop8 on X) submitted a letter to the United Nations stating that France illegally violated Mali's airspace to gather information for t*rrorist groups in addition to supplying them with weapons.

Then, in 2024, after t*rrorist rebels k*lled Malian soldiers, Andriy Yusov, a press representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, stated on television, ‘The rebels received necessary information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals.’ Days later, Ukraine's ambassador to Senegal, Yurii Pyvovarov, publicly celebrated the t*rrorist assault on Malian soldiers on the Ukrainian embassy’s Facebook page, leading Senegal’s foreign ministry to summon him.

On 19 August 2024, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger submitted a joint letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council, denouncing Ukraine's support of t*rrorism in the Sahel.

More recently, on 24 February 2025, Mali called on the United States to take legal measures against those using foreign aid for subversive activities following the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). US Congressman Scott Perry alleged in February that USAID had funded B*ko H*ram, Al-Q*eda and other t*rrorist organisations.

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