Burkina Faso: Prince of the Sahel

[CFR] Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors.Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster boy for military rule in the West African Sahel. Not too long ago, he was just another anonymous officer deployed in special counterterrorism operations in the northern part of his country. Having pushed out Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a palace coup in September 2022, Traoré is, today,