Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré

Articles

• Before there is anything to punish : Burkina Faso’s new citizenship question
  18 septembre, par Abiola Isikalu

  Abiola Isikalu argues that Burkina Faso’s military government is extending state control over students and citizens by treating education and mobility as security threats, conditioning belonging on perceived loyalty rather than actual conduct.
  On July 16, 2026, when addressing the Forces vives in Yagha Province, Burkina Faso’s transitional president Captain Ibrahim Traoré referred to a statistic that seemed to take even him by surprise. “The number of young Burkinabè studying sharia law (…)