A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a ...

A young, by political standards, military captain, now an acting president has captured widespread admiration in Burkina Faso and across Africa. The legend of captain Ibrahim Traoré appears to be… ...

Burkinabe leader Ibrahim Traoré is ... dozens of viral TikTok edits, Traore leads imaginary armies, topples Western empires and is hailed as the ‘new Thomas Sankara.’ The captions, bold ...

Since taking power in 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traore has embarked ... Burkina Faso’s cotton industry, Traore invested $50 million in a state-of-the-art processing facility to retain more profits ...

Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation ... This was the dream of the revolutionary Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara. Like Traoré, Sankara was a military officer who seized ...

You can get in touch with Amir by emailing a.daftari@newsweek.com. Languages: English and Farsi At 34, Ibrahim Traoré seized global attention by toppling Burkina Faso's junta—the second coup in ...

A person holds a sign with a picture of Captain Ibrahim Traoré while attending ... When he is not being idolized as the second coming of Thomas Sankara, the country’s one-time charismatic ...

A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has ... as a reincarnation of Sankara," he told the BBC. "And he knows the art of politics - how to make a nation ...