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The claim that Karoline (spelled Karoline/Karoline in sources) Leavitt told Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré to “sit down, boy” is fabricated and originates from AI-altered viral videos and socia...
Global data assembled in the provided analyses show that , with the Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of Islamist extremist ...
Ibrahim Traoré did not present verifiable, independently confirmed evidence proving the existence of an Israeli spy network; the materials cited in viral claims are an , and no reputable outlet or off...
The claim that “Caroline Levitt” played a direct, documented role in an incident—specifically telling Burkina Faso’s president to “sit down, boy”—is unsupported; reporting shows the name is likely a m...
Raw counts of U.S. visa overstays are dominated by large-source countries in Latin America — especially Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia — while the highest overstay percentages are concentrated among s...
Burkina Faso has not, in the sources provided, officially accused Israel of spying; reporting instead centers on allegations of disinformation operations linked to Israeli firms and separate spying al...
Burkina Faso severed diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 amid a wave of African solidarity with Arab states after the Yom Kippur War, and those ties were formally re-established in the early 1990...
Clinical-trial evidence for repeated ivermectin dosing in humans exists primarily in parasitic-disease programs and a few focused trials that used serial dosing over weeks to months, not routine weekl...
In fiscal 2024 USAID’s largest single-country recipients were Ukraine ($6.1 billion) and the Democratic Republic of Congo ($1.3 billion), while the agency’s top-10 list also included Jordan, Ethiopia,...
Available reporting shows a viral “Traoré” incident involving Karoline Leavitt was fabricated by AI-driven videos and debunked by multiple fact-checkers; Snopes and Meaww conclude there is no evidence...
Rising gold prices since 2023–24 have materially boosted revenues for Burkina Faso’s industrial miners and strengthened the junta’s push to capture more mining rent, even as production and security is...
The core finding: reputable fact-checkers and the sampled analyses conclude that the widely circulated quote that “Caroline Levitt” told Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré to “sit down, boy” is a f...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s national security approach places , combining arrests of suspected foreign agents, crackdowns on NGOs, and internal security reshuffles to detect and neutralize perceived espi...
The available source analyses do not provide a definitive count of how many diplomatic visits the United States has made to Burkina Faso this year; reporting indicates and at least one confirmed visit...