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Watch the moment Burkina Faso's head of state Ibrahim Traoré 'stole' the spotlight at Mahama’s inauguration

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  • Kwam 11 months ago

    He was the unofficial man of the occasion. you can confirm this by the cheers he received when the Speaker mentioned his name to congratulate the President H.E JM. Look at the way he is developing Burkina fasso in a very fas ...
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  • Vornyovie 11 months ago

    The young man is doing really good work for his country. He's a benevolent dictator and he's doing well.

  • Rex 11 months ago

    The guy was cheered not because of the coup or his age, but simply because he is doing remarkably well for his country, Ghanaweb and their stupid reportage as usual, always leaving out the main and important points,the guy is ...
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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 11 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.......for instance 10 paracetamol at once.......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • P Djamgbe 11 months ago

    @Rex, he was cheered because he whipped France in the ass and replaced her (France) with Russia - if I was at the event I would not just cheer him up, I would be kneeling on my knees and wiping the dust off his shoes with my ...
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  • Vornyovie 11 months ago

    You think Russia is better than France? Take a sober reflection

  • Joe 11 months ago

    Russia has never colonized any African country or has any history of cruelty towards Africans.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Tell him to go and read the history of Russia, especially Serfdom. Russia turned her own people into Serfs which was like Slavery. Look at the nonsense Russia is doing to Ukraine. I think Tralee can be a nice guy but if he le ...
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  • Taami@ Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    In short, you think that we are not free from western tyranny and dictatorship to take our own decisions. People like you are called house-niggers - in other words, pitiable ignoble slaves who would rather kill to defend slav ...
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  • don't care !!! ¢ 11 months ago

    well said!buddy

  • Taami@ Vornyovie 11 months ago

    You people use the English language by heart. What is a dictator and what is a benevolent dictator? You have been taught by our oppressors to use their language in a way that belittles us. Traoré is not by any means a dictat ...
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  • YSL 11 months ago

    A dictator is someone who has complete control over a country or government, often obtained through force or deceit, They often disregard democratic principles, human rights and rule of law,with absolute authority and power, ...
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  • Taami to YSL 11 months ago

    Another word that is overly misunderstood and highly misused - Democracy. People like you have been completely brainwashed - again by our oppressors, to wrongly think that putting a piece of paper in a ballot box every four y ...
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  • YSL to Taami, a good dictator is still a dictator, unless u have your own dictionary to define who a dictator is. 11 months ago

    Taami, the one who understands the English language well than those that is their language, did you read what I posted to comprehend before telling me that I rather have been brainwashed? Don't you think you rather have bn br ...
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  • Wiitabix 11 months ago

    If JM can achieve 25% of what this exceptional young sojaman has accomplished for his people and country, I would be very happy!

  • Apraku 11 months ago

    Why are we Ghanaians so stupid and ignorant? Why should even this Traoré be invited to this inauguration? And what has this guy achieved to be earning this praise? How many Burkinabes troop Ghana to find jobs?
    And I'm wonde ...
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  • KK 11 months ago

    Go to hell with your stupidity. What has Democracy done for you except your political class conniving with your colonial masters to rob the country. What cave do you live in? You’re not smarter than majority of the people m ...
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  • @Aparaku 11 months ago

    It's people like you that's why Africa is still poor. When leaders decides to use their natural resources to benefit their people, instead of western corporations, they spread propaganda about that leader. And fools like you ...
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  • Taami@ Apraku 11 months ago

    If Ghana - or indeed Africa has any respect or modicum of dignity left, it is because of iconic heroes like Lumumba, Nkrumah, Ghaddafi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, Palmer and lately, young valiant men like Traore. It is the ...
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  • Apraku 11 months ago

    When l read such comment from these educated fools , l get very angry. What happened to Nkrumah's government? Nkrumah was thrown out through a coup, and what was the aftermath for Ghana? What is happening in Burkina Faso , is ...
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  • Taami to Apraku 11 months ago

    For people like you who obstinate wish to continue swimming against the tide of evolution, it is better to leave you alone to wallow in your quagmire of ignorant stupidity. You ask, what happened to Nkrumah? I don't know if y ...
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  • Francis 11 months ago

    Why are you so bitter about Traore. Leadership is for guidance into prosperity and giving of hope to the people. My brother leave that man alone ok!

  • Son of Satan 11 months ago

    You are more stupid and ignorant than you sound. Youtu.be is free, research and became aware of what's happening around you. Make use of your phone and be useful

  • Abubakar 11 months ago

    In fact, you are a stupid idiot who doesn't know what he's about. If you foolishly care to know, the closure of BURKINA BORDER AND THAT OF NIGER is one of the major contributory factors in the high cost of food stuffs in our ...
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  • Joe Pike 11 months ago

    Ecowas wS massing up soldiers to overthrow him. So should he keep border open so they drive tru.
    You think he doesn't know BF cant prosper without trade?

  • AB 11 months ago

    A development oriented dictator is far better than a non performing so-called democrat

  • NDCs Confused Clowns Now Calling for a Coup? 11 months ago

    Have you so soon lost confidence even before Mahamas signature on the Presidential Form is dry thst you calling for a Military govt. Poor NDC . Dont know what they want.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Emperor Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings was also not elected when he stole power but as usual with Ghanaians, he was hailed. So was Sankara who had a Roundabout even named after him. This can only be done by our stupid leader.

  • Game Changer 11 months ago

    @Frank Agyena...BP will soon kill you cuz of your hate to JJ and unfortunately, there's nothing losers like you can do about his legacy. The longest serving leader in the history of Ghana!!!

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    You must be funny. We should let the young ones know the kind of horrible dictator he was. How many Military Officers, including Generals did he murder and kill? What happened to the Pastor and his congregation at Kumasi? Wer ...
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  • SD.com 11 months ago

    And who killed 8 people at Techiman south in 2020 elections and 6 in this 2024 one ? I guess it's JJ the hated one. When you're pointing one finger at JJ, the remaining 4 point at you

  • Hahahaha 11 months ago

    How about your NPP allowed NAM 1 kill over 5000 people who were scammed in broad day light

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 11 months ago

    You are ignorant. Thousands of Ghanaians are in BF working peacefully and contributing to the development of the landlocked nation. Similar Burkinabe working in Ghana.
    Because of Capt IB’s efforts against terrorism Ghana i ...
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  • Sule 11 months ago

    You are ignorant and a fooooooool to me

  • Ato Amaniampong 11 months ago

    You are a Dead fool.
    What has democracy done for the African people apart from law lectures, organized crimes, create-loot-share, massive poverty, massive unemployment, puppet leadership, yes Sir to western leaders.
    Wake u ...
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  • Wiseman 11 months ago

    That is true. .you are. Right.because I don't see any. Reason they must. Praising this. Guy when Burkina faso is still .poor. Country. Compare with Ghana.

  • The whole kumama 11 months ago

    @Apraku

    Your mother and your entire family are the true definition of stupidity. What has your so called democratic elected presidents done for the nation ABOA BI BA, Go to Burkina Faso and see what the undemocratic lead ...
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  • Jay 11 months ago

    China is not a democratic country yet you take loans from them and they also offer many scholarships to Ghanaians. How about that?

  • KOFI 11 months ago

    @Apraku i did not get anything worthy from your effusions. This behaviour of asking questions fails to articulate viewpoints.

  • Shoko 11 months ago

    My brother you haven’t taken your prescriptions from from Ankaful Psychiatry today. Stop the NKWASIKEKA.
    What have you personally done for your miserable hometown. Scum bag

  • Daakyehene 11 months ago

    Akufu Addo couldn't do 0.7 % of what the 34 year old soldier has done with all the loans he obtained.

  • Blade 11 months ago

    Do you know why he was cheered? He just got his country out of debt free from Europe. Secondly, he decided to keep
    His old salary as a general instead of triple it. Third, he is not kiss ass leader like most African leader ...
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  • They Are Still in the Shackle Chains of Slavery Through the France Controlled CFA Zone!! 11 months ago

    Yours is the most ignorant writing. The day they are brave enough to get themselves out of the shackle chains called the CFA Zone and establish their own Central Bank like Ghana and Nigeria has without seeking permission from ...
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  • BEN 11 months ago

    ANOTHER AFRICA JJ - HE IS THE BEST SO FAR IN AFRICA- THE MODEL OF GOVERNANCE

  • Kwame 11 months ago

    ignorance

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Not only ignorance but absolute stupidity has engulfed him.

  • Kojo @ Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    So as for you, you want to say that your eyes will never open? Imbecility would have gone out of fashion but for the few remaining quadrupeds of your kind.

  • JD 11 months ago

    I told you guys and I keep repeating and reminding you.. bagbin, mahama and most of these guys are foreigners disguised as Ghanaians. And it will be too late for Ghanaians when they've done us harm enough and stole our resou ...
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  • Game Changer 11 months ago

    @JD.. don't worry wai.. foreigners will rule over you many more years ahead. Decades in fact!!!

  • CRY FOR BURKINA FASO!! 11 months ago

    There is a saying that "if you want to see death, look at sleep". We saw sleep in the form f Rawlings in 1979. Fast forward to the rot of Ghana under both NDC and NPP in 2024. Troare was nowhere near Rawlings in terms of ach ...
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  • Son of Satan 11 months ago

    You are very ignorant. Rawlings was selling and destroying Nkrumah's factories but Traore is building factories. Learn

  • Why Do You Idiots Support NDC? 11 months ago

    So you now admit that yiur NDC Rawlings who overthrew Nkrumahs Limann because of his Yorke Gari debt was a waste of Ghanas time.

    So why do you idiots then supprt the NDC who destroyed Nkrumahs Party!

  • Son of Satan 11 months ago

    Why did you idiots overthrew Nkrumah and sold us out to your slave masters. Nation wreckers

  • Nkrumah Was Overthrown By Nyebro Ewes in both 1966 and 1979!!! 11 months ago

    Nkrumah was overthrown by Ewes in 1966 led by the Keta born Kotoka. Not surprising 15yrs later another Nkrumahist Dr. Hilla Limann was overthrown by another Ewe J.J Rawlings.

    The question we need to ask is why do Ewes hate ...
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  • Facts are sacred! 11 months ago

    These are facts which some people would rather prefer not to hear!

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Nkrumah became a horrible dictator, imprisoned innocent Ghanaians who disagreed with his Soviet Socialist kind of government. Nkrumah declared himself President for life, and Ghana a One Man State. How many people who simply ...
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  • The Ghost of Nkrumah is coming for you 11 months ago

    Oooh, how I wish we had another Rawlings to grab moles like you and cane you in public. Perhaps that might wake you up from your delirium.

  • Oneway Ticket 11 months ago

    Are Ghanaians calling for a coup? The waay they cheered this man showed that Ghana is ready for a military rule.
    Mahama must watch out. The same cheers and praises in bible made Saul confused when women cheered and praised D ...
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  • What is happening to NDC supporters? 11 months ago

    Its the NDC supporters now begging for a military govt. What happened in the last 3hrs for them to go against Mahama?

  • Mensa 11 months ago

    Oh the soldiers turned saviours come are the same.They are ravaging wolves in sheep clothes.
    They use all sugar- coated ways to make the citizens love them,the they shed the sheep clothes then...your guess is as good as min ...
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  • P k. 11 months ago

    The president of Burkina Faso and his body guards did not sit they were all alert. The guy is too much .

  • New order 11 months ago

    We need the one more NDC mp to declare another term for Mahama to have time to develop the country . This short man devil have really messed up the country

  • Fosu 11 months ago

    He is the kind of leader we need in Africa. God bless him

  • We had Rawlings!! 11 months ago

    We had Rawlings in 1979. So you mean Rawlings was a waste of Ghana's time for 40yrs

  • Nzimatata 11 months ago

    This is disgraceful for a republic state like Ghana. What is this new found love for dictators? Bagbin was fawning all over the guy to almost licking his boots. You are the speaker of a Republic for crying out loud! So, behav ...
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  • Nkwasiasem Party People 11 months ago

    Ok we hear!

  • Mensa 11 months ago

    Ndc= National Devils Council

  • No more 11 months ago

    If u can't say something good about the speaker, just shot the up...

  • KK 11 months ago

    Keep on licking your colonial masters boots. It’ll be nice if you really new a bit about the subject matter you’ve decided to speak on

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  • FOYOOSIS 11 months ago

    Reminiscing back how Akufo Addo lied to Ghanaians and stood there, undeserving, only to show us his true colours after 8years of rigging elections. Imagine it was puppet Bawuliar standing there today, how would his posture be ...
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  • Andrew 11 months ago

    this fanfool sycophancy has to stop!

  • Muchumuduu 11 months ago

    @Andrew mumu, you can go and drink rat poison and die. You will continue hearing Mahama's praises for the next 24 years

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 11 months ago

    Why do you have to insult someone as "mumu"? If someone cannot speak does that have to be used as an insult?

  • Kwame 11 months ago

    rat nonsense

  • Coitus di mumuayey 11 months ago

    Congratulations mr president!
    Just to remind of d promise u made prospective level 100 students of public tertiary institutions.
    We will report to school this January.
    Thank you.

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  • Volta 11 months ago

    The tortuous journey to disillusionment under the 5 Republic begins today. Out of bitterness for the NPP we handed over our birthright to people who have nothing to lose....whether they serve us right or not.

  • Volta 11 months ago

    80% of Ghanaians suffer from euphoria.

  • Sun Kim Moon 11 months ago

    Against baagbo waaaaa

  • Odasani 11 months ago

    What a fucking disgrace! May be Ghana needs a military leader?

  • Gh 11 months ago

    John Dramani Mahama is leader and a unifier. See all these attendees at the swearing in ceremony, John Dramani Mahama will not only reset Ghana, but African continent and the world.

  • I know 11 months ago

    Peace FM if you can't update the Parliamentary election results please remove the false report immediately from your front page

  • Sage 11 months ago

    Rubbish, what is this stupid Clown doing here ?
    The bastard Rawlings did more than this to no aveil.

  • Lambrusco 11 months ago

    The filthy sons of The Elephant are still bleeding after their punishment. What a brutal assassination of the Blue Elephant. Sosket.......

  • NDCs Confused Clowns Now Calling for a Coup? 11 months ago

    NDC supporters are now praying for a military leader to overthrow Mahama.

    Youve never seen a bunch of confused clowns like NDC who dont know what they want!

  • Game Changer 11 months ago

    You lack wisdom N intelligence no wonder guys like wontumi, abronye et al are party chairmen in your tribal NPP party. The young military leader is transforming his country rapidly and that's the crux of the matter. It's bett ...
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  • Please You Can Migrate to Burkina Faso! 11 months ago

    Now that they are no longer in ECOWAS be quick to apply for a visa to migrate to Ouagadougou to enjoy of Traore's Jihadist infested country.

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  • Son of Satan 11 months ago

    Long live capt Traore, long live AES

  • Winwin 11 months ago

    That was for the president to know why we voted for him ❤️❤️

  • Err 11 months ago

    See the way he took off his hat to greet the vice president. He respects her as a woman.i like him.hes young and energetic and is he married?

  • Obroniba 11 months ago

    Ibrahim Traore is fast becoming the leader Africa deserve. Military rule in diversity on display. His innovative ideas are talking him higher. The real face of Africa and a very young dynamic vibrant leader with a swag. He is ...
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  • Abrahams benjamin 11 months ago

    Thomas sankara indeed. A true brave leader of africa. Mahama must work acidously with him and bone these imperialist assholes.
    Tinebu

  • Adanko 11 months ago

    This burkina boy could have shot our president . So John mahama has a problem in reasoning ... yoooo

  • Dodovi 11 months ago

    Akuffo-Addo the snitcher and enemy of the progress of Africa went to report them to Ameeixa that the Russians are supporting neighbors.

    Divisive, arrogant and greedy dwarf.

  • Garvey 11 months ago

    When you are a man of the people, you dont beed any self praise

  • Kwame 11 months ago

    Are we supporting coup makers now? Oh NDC.

  • Konfo 11 months ago

    He shouldn't have been invited. He is a dictator in the making.

  • Nostradamus 11 months ago

    JM would be the last civilian government, Ghana would soon have their Ibrahim Traore

  • Dan 11 months ago

    This military regime is far far better than the so called democracies where big big thieves gang up using Parliaments and courts to loot, share, defend to favour themselves and a few members at the expense of those who are re ...
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  • Obu ne pah 11 months ago

    Ghana is more than Europe in Africa, we don't care about no one else. Ofui wo ho yi, obo no abaa obu ne pah.

  • KA NA WU. 11 months ago

    Legitimizing coup plotters? How shameful?
    We had to put our lives at risk by walking through the Achimota forest to
    reach Accra Central to demonstrate in order to compel JJ Rawlings and his Abongo Boys to hand over power ...
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  • KA NA WU. 11 months ago

    in the midst of....... wielding cutlasses.
    So disappointed that I forgot my vocabulary.

  • Agbelimor Paris 11 months ago

    Traore is a beautiful boy and Papa J was a good man

  • Sage 11 months ago

    Stupid Ewe idiot.

  • WHY IS TRAORE WEARING SHOOTING GLOVES TO THE INAUGURATION!? 11 months ago

    Our independence Square is not a Jihadist haven where terrorist will jump from under chairs to shoot at him!

  • Agbelimor Paris 11 months ago

    We have unknown soldier there holding gun, what's your sweat over a shooting glove?U.S, Canada, Italia,Russia, Ghanaians etc recognize him as a leader of Burkina Faso and admire his uniform.

  • Kobena Nsonaba Obibini 11 months ago

    I think Africa must not think of pushing the west away and bring the east, north and the south to the top.

    Africa's policies should be desire in a manner that Africa will be in center. When we are at the center the world ...
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  • MAHAMA THEY SAY YOU WANT TO SELL GHANA TO RUSSIA? 11 months ago

    If the stories we hear about Mahama promising Russia free access to our ports in a private deal to loot the land locked countries of the region is true then Ghanaians are waiting to see how he does it.

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    When the Good God assigned this beautiful day whom i am to complain.
    I am giving out free gift as part of my thanks giving, kindly let me know your wish and complains.

  • Willie 11 months ago

    This man shouldn't have been allowed to go near the president wearing his sidearm. That was a huge security breach and anything at all could've happened. They should be careful next time. You asked people not to fly drones bu ...
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  • Oooooooo 11 months ago

    So Traore and Akufo Addo, who borrowed money through the use of bonds ( contracts) but unilaterally introduced the DDEP, who is a tyrant and a dictator?