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How Ibrahim Traoré Just Broke Africa s Most Profitable Scam
Published 23 feb 2026
Follow the Money, Where Africa s Billions Actually Go
Burkina Faso s Highway Project is Re Writing African Infra Structure , and Ibrahim Traoré Just Exposed the Contractor Scam Draining Billions from African Development Budgets.
In this Episode of The Strategic Lens, We Go beyond the Headlines to Decode One of the Most Significant Infra Structure Stories on the Continent Right Now. A Landlocked Country with No Port, Under Western Sanctions, and Fighting an Active Insurgency Just Broke Ground on A 332 Kilometer, 8 Lane Express Way, Fully Funded from National Resources, No IMF Loans, No Foreign Contractors.
But the Road is Only Half the Story.
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We Trace the Money Iail behind 62 Years of Broken African Infra Structure Promises, Expose How the Contractor Model Quietly Converts Public Budgets into Private Profit, and Show How Burkina Faso Redirected $ 4.93 Billion Worth of Recovered Gold Revenues Directly into Nation Building.
This is Geo Political Analysis, African Development Strategy, and Investigative Economics, All in One Episode.
What We Cover in This Video
• Why Burkina Faso Had Only 3.000 Kilometer of Paved Roads After 62 Years of Independence
• How the African Contractor System Actually Works and Who It Serves
• The $ 4.93 Billion Lost through Illicit Financial Flows in Burkina s Gold Sector
• How Traoré Nationalised Five Gold Mines and Redirected the Revenue into Infra Structure
• The 332 Kilometer Express Way Connecting Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso, Built at A Fraction of Quoted Costs
• What the Alliance of Sahel States Means for the Future of African Self Reliance
• The Real Questions about Sustainability, Governance, and Whether This Model Can Hold
This is Not A Praise Video. It is Not A Hit Piece. It is an Open, Evidence Based Conversation about What is Working, What the Risks Are, and What Africa Can Learn from It Either Way.
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