'Africa Is Not Begging': Ibrahim Traore's Burkina Faso Rejects Western Lectures | Firstpost Africa

Watch this video as Firstpost explains how, in a dramatic escalation for West Africa's diplomatic relations, Burkina Faso’s military leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré has issued a direct ultimatum to the European Union: stop imposing Western instruction manuals under the guise of foreign assistance, or face a complete severance of diplomatic relations. Speaking through Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré during high-level talks in Brussels, Ouagadougou demanded a fundamental shift away from…