r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 23h ago

Biotechnology Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/burkina-faso-says-no-to-bill-gates-plan-of-creating-modified-species-of-mosquitoes/xyk7xm8
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u/Wompish66 22h ago edited 22h ago

The man who turned it down is a dictator that took over the country in a coup.

Not long after Russia's Wagner Group arrived.

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u/TXDobber 20h ago

And is currently losing a war to jihadists who are going around raping and pillaging villages, massacring soldiers, etc

While Traore sits in the capital, allowing Africa Corps (yes, Russia really named their Wagner replacement the fucking Africa Corps) to plunder the country for its gold, just as they are doing in Mali.

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u/En_CHILL_ada 16h ago

The same jihadist groups spawned by western intervention in Libya?

I wonder where they're getting their weapons from....

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u/Quasar375 6h ago

Lmao shut the fuck up. The french were already fighting those terrorists before. Not everything bad that happens in África is orchestrated by "The West".

Terrorists attacked the Sahel, french went to solve the situation AT THE REQUEST OF THE SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES and are quite successful. Suddenly, after severe russian propaganda, military juntas take control of the countries and kick the french out (why did the evil scheming french allow that? They already had their army there to dissolve the juntas if they wanted to).

Now russian mercenaries are the new allies of the Sahel, but turns out they are quite shit, so terrorists in Toyotas are able to ambush them and spread chaos.

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u/Wompish66 21h ago edited 21h ago

Yes, that's how he portrays himself.

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u/TXDobber 20h ago

Don’t worry, Burkina Faso will be an JNIM (Al-Qaeda) led state sometime in the near future, because the brave African strongman who kicked out the French doesnt know how to best Jihadis.

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u/Snigglybear 17h ago

So the French got replaced by the Russians? At least the French actually purchased the resources.

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u/TXDobber 17h ago

And at least the French could actually hold back the Jihadists, something neither these Sahel militaries or the Russian mercenaries seem capable of.

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u/TripleDet 22h ago

A. Has nothing to do with the commenters point. B. Mind your business. Let them sort it out. Unless you think we should go “liberate” them?

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u/Wompish66 22h ago

Mind your business. Let them sort it out. Unless you think we should go “liberate” them?

No, I'll continue to share my opinion of a tin pot dictator.

Traore would love someone like you.