Inside the secretive country run by a military leader with a cult following
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Few heads of state command a cult following like the young world leader and military ruler of Burkina Faso, President Ibrahim Traoré.
Even in the US, Donald Trump’s hypnotic power over his base is flickering as some of his staunchest supporters defect.
Beyond their shared charismatic pull, faux-isolationism and nationalist branding, there is something deeper that is required to maintain undying loyalty and complete dominion that Captain Traoré has almost perfectly instilled – a self-regulating silent surveillance that crushes dissent before it dares to start.
A carefully engineered media appearance
We were invited to Burkina Faso’s capital city, Ouagadougou, to join an exclusive roundtable interview of Capt Traoré that was completely engineered by his communications department in a climate of repression, fear and intensifying terror attacks, and aired on Burkinabè state television before we were sent the footage for our own use.
We are the first Western media channel to interview Capt Traoré alongside Italian state TV channel Rai, all in French.
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