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🇧🇫In 2022 when Ibrahim Traore came to power, only 9% of Burkinabes had access to clean drinking water, and i will not entirely blame past governments, as terrorist group were destroying the water processing facilities.

4500 Burkinabe children were dying of Water borne disease every year up until 2022.

In less than 3 years in power, over 50% of Burkinabes now have continuous access to clean drinking water.

That is a leadership that has proven itself worthy of the people's support, not the Western imposed ones..

When the world’s most powerful MILITARY landed in Somalia in 1993, they thought it would be a quick job — in and out, one hour tops. But the streets of MOGADISHU turned into a deadly trap that even the best-trained soldiers could barely survive. Black Hawk helicopters fell from the sky. Soldiers were outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded by locals fighting for their land.

This is the true story behind OPERATION BLACK HAWK DOWN — a mission that changed how AMERICA fights its wars abroad. Many young soldiers paid with their lives, while Somali families lost even more. What lesson did the world learn? And did anyone truly win?

SOURCE: Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down (1999)

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POWER can blind a nation and enrich a DICTATOR. MOBUTU SESE SEKO ruled CONGO for 32 long years, amassing an estimated $15 BILLION while millions suffered. He supervised the tragic death of PATRICE LUMUMBA — one of AFRICA’s brightest hopes — with the hidden blessing of the USA and Western ALLIES. It’s a painful reminder that the WEST’S true interest was never DEMOCRACY but CONTROL and PROFIT. (Source: BBC Africa, Al Jazeera Archives)

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