Look, there's a lot of straight up lies and fabricated news coming out of Burkina Faso with regards to AI generated content (like the aforementioned R Kelly video) and propaganda pushes, such as rebadging Chinese electric cars and food deliveries as domestically produced, along with terrorists operating in almost half of the country's territory. The recent shift from aligning with China to aligning more openly with Russia from the AES as a whole is a bit worrying. Having Russia as a military ally right now isn't the best situation, Russia's all tied up in Ukraine and can't afford to support other countries out of charity (see the fall of Assad in Syria) and will only provide the required levels of support if you're prepared to pay up big, and upfront (see Algeria's massive military budget and all the latest and greatest Russian equipment ending up in Algeria). Not mention Wagner or whatever it's called now has plenty of issues.

But the article fails to adress that or addresses it very briefly, and instead amounts to a digital temper tantrum of "we don't like Traore's ideology so he sucks" which is not insightful.