(OrinocoTribune.com)—On the second day of the Russia–Africa summit, the president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, delivered an anti-imperialist address and employed slogans identified with the Cuban Revolution.
Traoré assumed the presidency on September 30, 2022. At age 35, he is the world’s youngest head of state. Traoré has paid homage to Burkinabé socialist revolutionary Thomas Sankara who, in 1983, at age 33, took power in what was then Upper Volta. During his brief tenure, Sankara met with Fidel Castro, set up Committees for the Defence of the Revolution modeled on similar civilian defense organizations in Cuba, launched a nationwide literacy campaign, and instituted a series of reforms to improve housing and healthcare for Burkina Faso’s most vulnerable.
In October 2022, Traoré appointed lifelong Marxist and Sankarist Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla as Prime Minister of Burkina Faso. “Burkina Faso cannot be developed outside the lines drawn by Thomas Sankara,” reiterated Kyélem de Tambèla shortly after his appointment….
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