Ibrahim Traoré   To Africa's Youth: "We Must Reclaim Our Country, Gold & Be Our Own ‘El Dorado’
Channel: Africa Reloaded
Date: 2023-08-20

We celebrate this day in a particular context, as the predecessors have signified, this context of conflict. This conflict that we call something other than the violent, barbaric violent manifestation of imperialism, neocolonialism, and the slavery that we are forced to live under today. We have called it terrorism. When we take, for example, the theft of gold, your theme is about the employability of young people in Miliurira. Many of our young people are now on the site of artisanal production. In the most painful conditions, it is perhaps what happened in Europe and America in the 1800s, when men went into galleries to dig themselves to extract the ore, our young people continue to live this at the risk of their lives. Today we are trying to modernize a little. It is at the end of this that we have created Sonaspay, a company that will allow us to exploit and sell our precious substances, especially gold. The gold that young people exploit, that other people come to buy at a low price, that contributes to the food of terrorism, that comes out of the country without our having any control, we have decided to create this company to try to regain control of our mining sites and to allow the young people to produce in a more mechanized and respectful way. Because this fight we have today against terrorism is not only done by weapons, but also by development. As long as youth do not have jobs, they will always be tempted to go where it is easy to have money. And that is also what we must fight for. It is the place for me to pay tribute to all these young people who have committed themselves without a work state, as VDP, who are today on the ground, in the rain, in the fog, in the mud, wherever they are asked to go, they are fighting on the ground to try to recover our lands and therefore give this country what is called territorial integrity. And everyone at his level must therefore be able, also, by default, to take the Kalashnikov and participate in the development of this country. And we count on you, the youth. I told the parents and the Navy that I would be helping these great economic operators in the country, and I think some of them are here. So, get ready. We will help you create initiatives for the youth. We have launched the APEC in this sense to create what we call our companies that we want to put in place. Because we say it is inconceivable that we can produce tomatoes here and that we import tomato paste. It is absurd that we have all the products here and that we cannot transform them. Certainly, imperialist inscribes will be able to try to divert you from the objective, but it is a fight for all of Africa. It is time we wake up and that we are not led to cross the ocean, to die to go and find the Eldorado, so much so that we can create it here. Put your work in, I think it is possible.

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