内容摘要：“You could just feel us — it’s just natural, the building, everything, it kind of sucked a little bit of life out of us,” he said.

“You could just feel us — it’s just natural, the building, everything, it kind of sucked a little bit of life out of us,” he said.

, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore were plastered over Russian state media speaking about pan-Africanism and liberating the minds of the continent’s youths.Traore, who was in Moscow for the

, is Africa’s youngest leader at 37, a strong appeal for the continent’s young population that is used to much older leaders.Since coming to power in September 2022 after the country’s second coup that year, he has dwelt on a rhetoric of self-reliance and independence from the West, particularly former colonial ruler France — a message that often resonates with young Africans and the diaspora.The latest Traore frenzy reached a new peak late April with

in the country’s capital, Ouagadougou, following an alleged coup attempt and comments by Gen. Michael Langley, the head of U.S. military in Africa, accusing the Burkina Faso leader of misusing the country’s gold reserves.Following the 2022 coup that brought him to power, Traore promised to end the country’s decadeslong deadly security crisis and leverage its rich mineral resources for the benefit of its 24 million citizens.

Alongside the coup-hit nations of Niger and Mali, Burkina Faso has since severed ties with the regional bloc of ECOWAS — criticized by many young Africans as representing the interest of leaders and not the citizens — as well as longstanding Western allies such as France, whose military provided security support to the government for many years to help its security crisis.

Analysts and locals suggest that these factors, combined with his youth, have contributed to Traore’s appeal among young Africans.that she decided to pass the time at her job rather than “nervously waiting around at the hospital.”

“Having the entire morning team alongside me cracking jokes helped me get through contractions much easier,” she said in a text to the newspaper.The birth of her baby boy, Quincy, was announced Thursday.

He’s a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger.Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since the 1830s, but nobody’s perfect, right?