•Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore If you believe the viral videos online, R. Kelly and Pope Leo XIV agree on one thing — that Burkina Faso’s junta chief, Captain Ibrahim Traore, is a fantastic leader. The images are AI-generated propaganda, part of what experts have called a vast disinformation campaign spreading the “personality...
•Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according to an official decree seen by our correspondent today. The troubled west African country has been run since September 2022 by military leaders following a coup headed [&hell...

