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Global African Youth Rally Behind Captain Traore. He survived already 19 assassination attempts. African resistance against the neocolonial order, which is blocking the chances of Africans is growing

The Moment Ibrahim Traoré Revealed the Truth After Being Poisoned! The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré


On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent. Some Senators expressed concern that Trump had dispensed with the soft power—their term—projected by USAID and worried that China is stepping in to fill the breach.

Alarm bells went off in Africa, the African diaspora, and peace and justice communities all over the world when he turned attention to Burkina Faso and its leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, accusing him of using the gold reserves he nationalized “to protect his junta.”

It would be challenging, of course, to come up with a more arrogant, illogical, and downright idiotic assertion.  The head of AFRICOM, a military command openly devoted to securing US interests, with a $2 billion dollar annual budget, accuses an African leader of devoting his own country’s resources to its security?

In a pathetic attempt to give this a bit of humanity or legitimacy, Langley complained that Traoré was using the country’s gold to finance his own security rather than for the benefit of his people, as though there were some universe in which this was a plausible US concern. In the same breath he described North Africa as “NATO’s southern flank.”

Since mid-April a slew of social media posts have reported that the Burkina Faso diaspora, particularly in France, have been protesting and demanding that Captain Traoré step down, accusing him of being a dictator, with some even calling for his arrest. None of these posts are conclusively evidenced, and their scale, sometimes described as "hundreds" or a "small group,” varies across reports. No major news outlets seem to have reported such protests, but real or not, they’re a classic element in the Western regime change playbook.

When the West slaps on tariffs, it’s 'economic security'—but when the Sahel rejects exploitative deals, it’s called a threat. From Cuba to Burkina Faso, countries have fought for self-sufficiency: controlling their resources, supporting local industry, and breaking free from foreign domination.

As the U.S. doubles down on tariffs and trade wars, African nations—particularly in the Sahel—find themselves at a critical juncture. The West calls its protectionism “economic security” and “national interest.” But when African states make similar moves to assert control over their land, labor, and futures, they are labeled authoritarian, unstable, or dangerous. Sovereignty for the West is lauded. Sovereignty for the South is a threat.

The truth is that protectionism has always been political. From Alexander Hamilton’s “infant industry” policies in the U.S. to South Korea’s strategic shielding of domestic industries in the 1960s and 1970s, protectionism has never been about fairness. It’s about national priorities and class alliances. In the Global North, protectionism often props up monopolies. In the Global South, it can be a revolutionary act.

The Sahel is acting now. Countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have expelled French troops, withdrawn from long-standing neocolonial pacts, and challenged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ECOWAS purports its primary goal as promoting economic integration within the region but often levies sanctions that do the opposite. These moves, often dismissed as populist or military overreach, are more than symbolic. They are seeds—imperfect and vulnerable, but seeds nonetheless—planted in the hope that a different world might grow.

But sovereignty isn’t declared. It is built, layered, and watered. The Sahel needs leadership and an economic, political, and cultural architecture that can sustain rupture. That’s where radical protectionism comes in. Radical protectionism is not a retreat into isolationism but an opening to grow new roots. This protectionism has three key pillars: regional production for regional consumption, non-negotiable public investment in essential sectors, and popular—not elite—control over industrial policy and national development.































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