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