Ibrahim Traore has said something on the news channels 

BBC, CNN, France24 I am watching you. I am telling you all your lies. I am Ibrahim Traore, and I am going to unmask you today. 

Yes, you heard me right. I am the man you called a terrible military predator leader. Whom you branded as a dangerous dictator. Whom you presented as the anti-Western ruler. 

He has exposed the false lies 

I want to tell the truth today, and this time you cannot turn off the mic. This time you cannot remove the camera. This time your editors cannot cut this speech. Because the world that you had a monopoly on is no longer there. 

Now millions of people will hear this voice. Not by going through your editing, not by being wrapped in your lies, not by being dragged through your filth.

 I am 34 years old. I have lived every day of my life with your lies. As a child, I used to watch Africa on TV. 

Always the same images: children surrounded by flies, drought-stricken land, weapons, war, hunger, death. This is what we were told was Africa and we believed it. 

We were ashamed of ourselves, we were ashamed of our land, we were ashamed of our own citizens. But when I grew up, read, researched and started asking questions, I realized that the Africa you showed was not true, the story you told was a lie. 

For years, you have made your own script and made Africa look ugly. You have told and shown the same story every time. 

There is no hope in your African dictionary, no development, no progress, no rebellion, no morality and no history of pride nor any history of victory.

 So I want to ask, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, have you ever made Africa's success your headline? How many times have you written about African technology? How many times have you shown the Ethiopian Renaissance?

He asks again, asking some questions. 

He asks, "How did Africa, which is so rich, become such a poor country?" Africa is the place where 70 percent of the world's cobalt comes from. Cobalt is the thing without which none of our electrical appliances can be made. But the sad thing is that the workers who mine cobalt cannot even buy a mobile phone. 90 percent of the world's platinum comes from South Africa, yet its people are unemployed. 30 percent of the world's gold is shipped from African countries, yet these countries are victims of poverty. 35 percent of the uranium used to produce electricity that lights up the world's big cities comes from African countries, but that same Africa is in darkness. For security 

ibrahim traore

He has presented himself as a skilled leader 

This speech is by Ibrahim Traore, the military president of the African country Burkina Faso. 

This is a very powerful speech by him. He is currently known as a new, emerging leader for the African nation. In fact, the way we are told about Africa, the things we are sent are completely wrong. Hunger, epidemics, those poor settlements, those dirty clothes that have been on our bodies for years, those little children sitting with bowls without getting food, all this is a lie. We have been shown wrong things for many years. The contribution he has made to the country has played a role in bringing about a huge improvement in the country's economic development.