“As if the few halberds that fall thickly in this month of August were pushing new political formations, there are new ones created every week.” Today in Faso can’t come back. In Burkina Faso, political parties are springing up like mushrooms these days!
Same observation from Burkina 24, which nevertheless spins the spring metaphor: “Politically, it is the season of great migrations, new gatherings and the discovery of new pastures, writes the Burkinabe site. And on the side of CSOs [Organisations de la société civile] and other supposedly apolitical movements, it is also the spring of births […]. A crossover between pro and anti-MPSR [Mouvement patriotique pour la sauvegarde et la restauration, la junte au pouvoir depuis le 24 janvier 2022] , between ‘pimps’ and ‘croppers’! To this must be added the anti-French movements which are firing on all cylinders to flambé the Gallic rooster and roll out the red carpet to the Russian bear.”
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