{"id":7293,"date":"2026-04-10T17:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/7293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:43:22","slug":"president-for-life-inside-traores-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/7293\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018President for life\u2019: Inside Traor\u00e9\u2019s Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"\u2018President for life\u2019: Inside Traor\u00e9\u2019s Burkina Faso\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m27DrzakW3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u2018President for life\u2019: Inside Traor\u00e9\u2019s Burkina Faso<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFew heads of state command a cult following like the young world leader and military ruler of Burkina Faso, President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir visits a country hailing its \u2018revolution\u2019 as it continues to suffer jihadist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>** This is a re-edit of a video posted on 9 April in which there was a production error. The original video mistakenly included some footage from Mali and Benin. In this version, that has been replaced by correct footage showing Burkina Faso.**<\/p>\n<p> Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-young-military-leader-strengthening-relations-with-russia-and-china-13529478<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018President for life\u2019: Inside Traor\u00e9\u2019s Burkina Faso Few heads of state command a cult following like the young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9993,9990,9984,6778,9997,9985,9986,9996,9988,9989,9998,9991,9528,9995,9987,9992,296,9994,9999],"class_list":{"0":"post-7293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sky-news","8":"tag-african-politics","9":"tag-assimi-goita","10":"tag-burkina-faso","11":"tag-burkinafaso","12":"tag-burkinafaso-coup","13":"tag-burkinafaso-news","14":"tag-burkinafaso-president","15":"tag-burkinafaso-protests","16":"tag-ibrahim-traore","17":"tag-mali-news","18":"tag-niger-coup","19":"tag-niger-news","20":"tag-regional-stability","21":"tag-sahel-alliance","22":"tag-sahel-region","23":"tag-sahel-security","24":"tag-sky-news","25":"tag-west-africa-news","26":"tag-west-africa-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116381696835029111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}