A Spy Behind a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Burkina Faso, named Claire Dubois – a French woman in her early 30s, arrived in Burkina Faso posing as the director of a Western NGO called Hope Forward, which claimed to support girls education and women’s health.
She posed as a humanitarian focused on helping African women, visiting villages, schools, and markets, and praising Burkina Faso’s leadership on state television.
However, behind this façade, Dubois was engaged in espionage. She was gathering intelligence on military sites, including military training centers, oil facilities, and drone monitoring posts, under the guise of humanitarian work.
She had two phones – one for public use and one for secure communication – and she sent encrypted emails containing detailed maps and satellite images of sensitive military locations to contacts linked to NATO and foreign intelligence.
Burkina Faso’s intelligence services flagged her activities and monitored her communications. President Ibrahim Traoré allowed her to continue to gather evidence of her true mission. Eventually, she was publicly exposed at the National Conference on African Sovereignty, where the president presented her own classified documents and emails live on stage, revealing her spying activities to the world.
There are diplomatic pressures for a quiet resolution, but President Ibrahim Traore has insisted on transparency and justice, emphasizing the betrayal of trust involved.
Reacting, Netizens of African dissent, while praising President Ibrahim Traore for his doggedness in protecting the continent, called for proper investigation of the activities of NGOs operating in Africa.
According to Mercy Ilechukwu: “Who is this man Ibrahim Toare? Can you see the hand of Jehovah on him. At the appointed time, God raises a deliverer, Toare is God sent”.
Onwugbufo Linus: “Mercy Ilechukwu l concur. God will use him to deliver his country n build it on a strong foundation. Other African nations will learn 4rom him n Africa will rise to another stage”
Saviour Nkereuwem: “If we can have ten of Ibrahim in this Africa no one will travel out again”
Floyd Nzeogu: “I can imagine the level of espionage activity going on here unchecked”.
Ifeanyi Ochi: “99.9% of NGOs and humanitarian agencies in Africa are spies”.
Benjamin Binga: “President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso Faso be made the president of Africa(let that office be created immediately) We want African continent to be launched into world superpower(the African countries be made provinces or territories(as governors under Traore) So I opine”.
Gospel Mawal: “They are in Nigeria every where i tell u they always come as NGOs with humanitarian ads”
Kobena Baah: “Every organisation posing as an ngo must be cross checked seriously. Most of them may be in an operation like that”.
Mo Shahid: “Yes they are, part of a network to compromise Africa at every step of the way”.
Sebental Zanini: “…thats why I can’t trust people who claim to be coming to help us but we have no background about who they are!
We can’t do so in their countries!”.
Mariam Kerre: “This what NGOs have been doing in Africa for ages”.
Chigozie Nzekwe: “Kudos to Ibrahim Traore”
… to be continued
