On April 22, 2026, Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré made an unannounced visit to the country’s Baporo Penitentiary Center, located in its Sanguié Province. The open environment, low-security, rehabilitation-focused facility was first built in 1986 by the administration of then Burkinabé President and Pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara, but fell into disrepair in the wake of Sankara’s assasination by France. It has since been revived by the Traoré administration as part of a wave of reforms to the country’s criminal justice system, reforms which have placed the dignity and humanity of the convicted in the same esteem as the peace and security of the nation.

Under these reforms, Burkinabé inmates can reduce their sentences by contributing to the country’s agricultural sector, and be eventually reintegrated into society with useful, socially beneficial skills. This development stands as one of many testaments to Burkina Faso’s rapid progress since Traoré assumed office in 2022.

Not that the West’s media parrots care to ever mention this progress in their insidious publications.

As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso has faced relentless attacks by Western-backed t£rrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members, Mali and Niger, have continued to record economic and political wins.

All 3 AES members have pointed to former colonizer France as a key sponsor of t£rror in the region – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself has made no bones about its intentions to revive its dwindling influence in Africa, and in so doing, shore up its presently crumbling economy.

The motive behind the West’s slander campaign is clear: to manufacture consent for regime change in the AES, so that Africa may put back in its assigned place in the West’s global order. It is up to the people of Africa to continue to resist this tired trick.