Amazing Burkina Faso’s $18 billion gold revenue since Ibrahim Traoré’s 2022 coup, a dramatic rise from the $1 billion annual yield under foreign companies. Clearly nationalization has boosted economic control and supports the country’s growth.

Traoré’s leadership marks a shift from French colonial influence, with his Alliance of Sahel States challenging traditional Western alliances, a move backed by historical tensions like the 1985 Agacher Strip war with Mali over mineral resources.

Western political cycles, suggest that gold mining’s economic impact is tempered by issues like child slavery and mining accidents, raising questions about the sustainability of this revenue surge.

The rest of the world laughs in the face of the western hypocrisy, as they have used African child labor for decades without never think twice about it…