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Thirty-five years ago this month, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was murdered by former comrades. “Africa’s Che Guevara,” as he was known, was shot down in a coup d’etat by soldiers who were rebelling against his socialist transformation of Burkina Faso, a landlocked and poor rem...
Burkina faso is a small, landlocked former french colony in west africa, which used to be called upper volta. in 1984, it changed its name. burkina faso means the land of honest people. whether that was meant to be a statement of fact orjust an aspiration isn't clear. but it's been in turmoil for the whole of this year with a couple of coups in a matter of months. the biggest problem is a jihadi insurgency, and burkina faso's best friend in dealing with that seems to be russia and in particular the wagner group, russia's shadowy commercial paramilitary organisation. russia thinks it can solve ...
On a certain street, we try to geo—locate the street and we try to find other videos of the same protests, different angles, just to verify that it did actually happen. i've been accused time and again over the years of working for british intelligence against iran and so on. in my work as a bbc correspondent. i mean, presumably the iranian authorities make the same claims about you, don't they? absolutely. the bbc is considered an anti—iran news outlet. they call any report about iran that may paint the authorities in a bad light as an anti—iran report — not anti—establishment. if y...
An anti—iran news outlet. they call any report about iran that may paint the authorities in a bad light as an anti—iran report, not anti establishment. if you criticise the authorities, you are criticising iran. that's how they want to project this for their audience. burkina faso is a small, landlocked, former french colony in west africa, which used to be called upper volta. in 1984, it changed its name. burkina faso means the land of honest people. whether that was meant to be a statement of fact orjust an aspiration isn't clear. but it's been in turmoil for the whole of this year with ...
There have been two military coups in the West African state of Burkina Faso since January as attacks by rebel groupings are fueling...