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/Zetice 20h ago

Everyone is troare lap dog. In reality he has not accomplished a single thing since seizing power. Just another military ran country until someone else seizes power from him.

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u/irascible_Clown 20h ago

She was there during Blaise Compaoré reign back in 2011 and it seems like they have made no progress since then.

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u/Kryptonicus 18h ago

Don't be so quick to say no progress. There has been two successful coups and two unsuccessful coup attempts since 2011!

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u/SimmentalTheCow 6h ago

Six more and they get a free Slushie!

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u/ReammyA55 5h ago

Thomas Sankara was the only one doing things for Burkina Faso and its people. Trying to make it independent from any outside intervention and autonomous. See what that got him. The ones who pushed and helped to get him killed put up Compaoré and that's that. Puppet state for outside interests.

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u/Sad_Equipment_3022 16h ago

Those stories of roads etc being built are false? I can never tell 

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u/Invinciblez_Gunner 19h ago

He ended French Colonial control, thats a great achievment

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u/Some-Concentrate3229 18h ago

They’ve been independent since 1960.

What they ended with France was a military agreement that was greatly effective at controlling Islamic terrorism in the region. If that’s a great achievement, I think we have differing definitions.

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u/Invinciblez_Gunner 18h ago

France controls their currency

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u/Some-Concentrate3229 18h ago edited 18h ago

The West African Franc? You’re telling me that France controls the Central Bank of West African States? Are you being serious or are you just fucking with me?

They print the F.CFA in France, that’s it. Unless you have some evidence saying otherwise? But you don’t, or else you would’ve shared it.

e: I see what he’s (probably) talking about. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-france-backed-african-cfa-franc-works-as-an-enabler-and-barrier-to-development/

France says that they guarantee the convertibility of CFA to Euro if the members of the Central Bank of African States keep 50% of their foreign currency in the French treasury. I can see how this can be viewed as France trying to “control their currency”. With that being said, that would be a really shortsighted takeaway of it. It’s been a policy for many decades, going back to when Africa as a whole was significantly less stable than it is nowadays. Having that guarantee of convertibility made foreign investors more comfortable, and contributed to double-digit increases in GDP for a few countries.

If in the modern day they feel ready to take more control of their currency and don’t want the guarantee of convertibility, they can just take their foreign currency back.

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u/Super_Swim_8540 17h ago

The French economy is based on the economic exploitation of Africa. This is why France killed Thomas Sankara, who tried to restore Burkina Faso's total economic sovereignty. He wanted to break with external dependence, imperialism and corruption, which are the three main reasons for the poor economic and social performance of sub-Saharan African countries.

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u/EstablishmentLow2312 16h ago

Why bother with westerners they barely understand culture much less geopolitics,  school teach pc version of history

France also controlled a few important assets (water) and got cheap uranium and russia exposed them 

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u/Quasar375 6h ago

Hey, tell me, French economy is supposed to colapse without african resources, right? Now that the french oppressor is out, surely they will crumble... in how much time?

You know, they need uranium... that they already bought mostly from khazakstan, they need gold... that they already have in reserves... what else?

Oh and please tell me, how is everything going over there with your new russian allies??

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u/Super_Swim_8540 13h ago

Yes, that's why France seeks to maintain corrupt governments in Africa to maintain control over their economies in order to extract mass value and compensate for all the corruption they allow in their own countries, which allows them to remain in power and maintain their privileges (Mitterand, Macron, Sarkozy, etc.).

And otherwise, they try to subjugate them. When that doesn't work, they corrupt their entourage, their media, and have them assassinated, pretending that these are independent autonomous revolts without hidden Western funding.

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u/Some-Concentrate3229 13h ago

The only people who will be negatively affected by Africa working with Russia and China are Africans. I don’t give a shit what they do. They’ll just have to lie in the hole they’ve dug.

I’m gonna continue not caring about the entire continent minus literally 4 countries.

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u/CommiRhick 8h ago

You might not care, but the CIA and globalist "elite" do...

Where do you think you get all your raw materials that operate your phones, computers, cars, military, etc?

Primarily from exploitive slave labor in subjugated countries.

It's difficult to introspect the privileges we hold, normalcy and complacency bias herds the masses. As the multipolar world rises, those reflections will come sooner than you think.

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u/Super_Swim_8540 13h ago

Fortunately, your consideration has no impact.

Africans are influenced by rich countries to maintain corruptible governments.

They bear no responsibility in this.

You have to be stupid to confuse the African people with their mediocre governments.

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u/Moifaso 16h ago

 I can see how this can be viewed as France trying to “control their currency”.

I can't. France controls neither the Euro nor the conversion rate. So no, they don't control the currency.

Holding some of the foreign reserves in France was an old measure put in place to secure the currency agaisnt palace coups and instability in the region. Said reserves (as well as currency administration) are in the process of being moved fully to African control.

https://www.senenews.com/actualites/economie/lafrique-en-quete-de-souverainete-la-fin-du-franc-cfa-et-les-defis-de-la-monnaie-ecom_527202.html

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u/Mithras666 1h ago

Are you being purposely dense? France controlling African economies doesn't require them to have control over the Euro too lmao, are you serious?

You say they have gold in their reserves, how do you think it got there?

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u/pangolinparty999 11h ago

The French are very proud and have enacted laws that limit the practice of Islam in France to maintain their historical culture. That’s the primary fuel for a lot of the Saharan cells. It’s reasonable to argue that removing France from the country would prioritize saving the lives of the Burkinabe people from internal terrorist attacks, opposed to prioritizing combatting terrorism in France which is what the French troops were there to do.

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u/Quasar375 6h ago

Wow, so many wrong things here. First of all, France has enacted laws that limit the practice of RELIGION in France to maintain civil order. For example, no religious indumentary inside government buildings. Christians are totally okay with this. Only some Muslims are not okay with this because they value what their religion says more than what their countries law says. See the problem?

And also, terrorist cells in the Sahel terrorize primarily the people pf Burkhina Faso, Mali, etc. France is much less affected by them and yet they were helping.

France was removed by Traore and guess what? Terrorists advanced and killed even more people because Burkhina Fasos and Russian mercenaries are not good enough at fighting, while terrorists love taking over the country

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u/Zetice 17h ago

And what did that “control” include exactly?

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u/pangolinparty999 11h ago

Exactly. Intel sharing, monetary requirements, resource “deals”, etc.