GOALDEN PRESIDENT TRAORE RALLIES BURKINABE

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré has been showing off his leadership skills on the football pitch. The military captain skippered a side that beat the country’s national team 3-2 in a friendly and even got on the scoresheet. However, his ultimate goal remains the transformation of his country.

Since coming to power, he’s overhauled geopolitical alignments within the West African region. He’s teamed up with Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Nicaragua over neocolonial powers such as France and other EU states. He’s also formed an Alliance of Sahel States with neighbours Niger and Mali and wants to build a Pan-African federal state in the future.

According to the Pew Research Centre, he’s the world’s youngest president at 36 years old. And he’s certainly on the ball when it comes to inspiring Burkina’s young population, whose average age is just 17. After the game, Traore said he loved sports for instilling national pride and would always encourage people to compete for the country.

It makes you wonder which other world leaders could do this. Most are over 60, with Cameroon’s Paul Biya the oldest at 91!

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