2023-07-28 17:27:02
The second Russia-Africa summit is currently being held in Saint Petersburg in the presence of African leaders. On this occasion, the transitional president of Burkina Faso appreciated Vladimir Putin’s efforts and delivered a strong message to his fellow African presidents.
First, Captain Ibrahima Traoré praised the efforts made by Russia during the Second World War to liberate the world from Nazism. For him, the African continent and Russia have the same prospects. This is why he hopes that this summit will be an opportunity to be able to weave very good relations between nations with a view to a better future for their peoples.
Ibrahima Traoré did not fail to point out the current concerns of his generation.
“The questions that my generation asks themselves are the following, if I can summarize myself, it is not to understand how Africa with so much wealth on its soil, with generous nature, water, sunshine in abundance, Africa is today the poorest continent? Africa is a hungry continent? And how is it that our heads of state cross the world to beg? Here are some questions that we ask ourselves and that we have no answer so far. We have the opportunity to build new relationships and I hope that these relationships can be the best to give a better future to our peoples.
My generation also instructs me to say that it is because of poverty that it is forced to cross the ocean to try to reach Europe. She dies in the ocean. But that soon, it will not go to the ocean because it will come in front of our palaces to seek their daily pittance”.
The leader of the transition in Burkina Faso affirms that his country has been confronted for more than eight years now with the form of demonstration “the most barbaric, the most violent of neocolonialism, of imperialism; the slavery that tends to be imposed on us. Our predecessors have taught us one thing; “the slave who is not able to assume his revolt does not deserve that we feel sorry for himself”. We don’t feel sorry for ourselves, we don’t ask anyone to feel sorry for ourselves.
The people of Burkina Faso have decided to fight: to fight once morest the terrorist hydra to relaunch their development. In this struggle, valiant populations have pledged to take up arms in the face of terrorism. Those we have affectionately called the VDPs, the Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland.
We are surprised to see imperialists calling these VDPs militias of any type. It is disappointing because in Europe when people take up arms to defend their homeland, they are called patriots. Our grandfathers were deported to save Europe. It wasn’t with their consent, it was once morest their will. But on the way back, we remember well that in Thiaroye when they wanted to claim their basic rights, they were massacred. It does not matter. When we, the peoples, decide to defend ourselves, we are called militias. But that is not the problem. The problem is to see African heads of state who bring nothing to these peoples who are fighting, but who sing the same things as the imperialists by calling us militias, by treating us as men who do not respect not human rights. What human rights are we talking regarding? We take offense at this and it is shameful. We African heads of state must stop behaving like puppets dancing every time the imperialists pull the strings.”
In his opening speech, the Russian president announced the “free” shipment of cereals to Africa. Captain Ibrahima Traoré thanks Putin for the gesture and challenges his African counterparts to this effect.
“It’s a message sent to us African Heads of State because at the next summit, we should not come here without having ensured food self-sufficiency for our peoples for those who do not know war. We need to take the experience of those who have been able to achieve this goal in Africa, build good relationships here, build better relationships with the Russian Federation to be able to meet the needs of our people.”
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