Aid, Espionage, and Extraction: The Hidden Machinery That Looted Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s recent arrests of foreign aid workers are not an outburst of paranoia but the culmination of decades of exploitation disguised as partnership. For generations, Western governments, mining conglomerates, and their affiliated NGOs extracted the country’s wealth—first its gold, now its data—under the language of development. What the world calls repression in Ouagadougou may instead be the long-delayed assertion of a people’s right to control their own resources and their own narrative.