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[-] TransWalterKronkite@hexbear.net 84 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I will burst the bubble. There is no reason to believe this is true.

The official website for The Office of the President of Burkina Faso makes no mention of this anywhere. Neither does the official facebook page, which is the governments most active social media platform, or on Ibrahim Traore’s personal twitter

An Instagram page with a censored name for a huge news announcement being the only source should be a large red flag for Hexbear readers. I will be making a larger effortpost on this, but there is much misinformation online about the AES and Burkina Faso, including misinformation about positive developments. As should always be the case, we must keep a sharp eye for news about anti western hegemony states, and do more research for before blinding believing any social media screenshots as real sources.

I notice that many of these dubious posts about the AES are on ChapoTrapHouse, and not the news comm or megathread, and I believe this is because the news areas have much stricter standards about sources and more skeptical audiences

Burkina Faso and the Sahel Confederation have made many actual positive developments, and these real events are being obscured by posts such as these

Here is actual news about positive, on the ground developments in Burkina Faso and the Sahel Confederation

Burkina Faso completes nationalisation of five gold mining assets

Alliance of Sahel States puts on show of unity through inaugural games

Burkina Faso harvests first plaintains as part of the Presidential Initiative For Agricultural Production And Food Self-sufficiency

Burkina Faso celebrates first ever kidney transplant

[-] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the reality check. I was a bit suspicious - panafricanism is great and all, but this would be a bit of a wild plan to announce as the leader of a single nation state without at least having a few others pipe up and say they're on board.

[-] revolut1917@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

East Africa can't even federate after literally decades of multiple stable states trying, how would a confederation of three juntas who are losing land to jihadists constantly be able to do it lmao

[-] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

I'm going to believe this is real simply because I want to

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I thought this was suspicious. It just reeks of manufacturing consent and anticommunist dogwhistles. To us it probably sounds cool, but to your average anticommunist yankie, it probably sounds like Burkina Faso is preparing to invade the rest of Africa (therefore the US must go in and stop them)

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

2 months ago Ibrahim gave an interview during his visit to Russia for the Victory Day parade in which he did explicitly say that you can expect the AES to expand in the future: https://youtu.be/_qkS7MQGBtA?t=954

Extrapolating that to "USAfrica" is obviously going a very long way but they do want to expand it.

[-] revolut1917@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

The way that many people i follow/know uncritically repeat these ridiculous, fake "news" stories has really shattered my faith in the ability of most of us to discern reality. Same shit with those garbage IRAN MILITARY NEWS accounts that popped up during the war in June and would announce "F-35 DOWNED!!!!" three times a day. I get that it was annoying back when people would bombard you with "source? source?" as a stand-in for a workable argument, but maybe we need to go back to that.