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ECOWAS is still talking with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger for cooperation – ECOWAS Ghana Rep
Resident Representative of ECOWAS in Ghana, Ambassador Mohammed Lawan Gana at the event held in Accra The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is intensifying diplomatic efforts to ensure that Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger cooperate...
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ECOWAS is still talking with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to return – ECOWAS Ghana Rep
President’s Representative of ECOWAS in Ghana, Ambassador Mohammed Lowan Gona at the event held in Accra The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is intensifying diplomatic efforts to bring Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger back into the...
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Catholic Charity Receives Request to Keep Hundreds of Children Fleeing from Burkina Faso’s Volatile Areas in School
“The army,” he says, “has endeavoured to make an area safe so that the population which has remained can cultivate some plots of ground in Kompienga. That has helped a lot this year, because since 2022 that has been impossible.” The F.M.R member...
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Land grabbing scandal in Burkina Faso: Withheld report exposes political corruption
Land grabbing scandal in Burkina Faso: Withheld report exposes political corruption For years, land and housing have stood at the center of political tension in Burkina Faso. The West African country, already plagued by insecurity, poverty, and...
Owner: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Merck Foundation Africa Asia Luminary 2025 to be Co-Chaired by The Gambia First Lady and Merck Foundation Chief Executive Office (CEO) and Inaugurated by the President of The Gambia
(MENAFN- News.Africa-Wire) Merck Foundation (), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, will conduct the 12th Edition of their annual conference, “Merck Foundation Africa Asia Lumina”y”, in partnership with the Government of The Gambia in...
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Robust International expands African footprint with the support of European entities
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Engineering News
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Global trader of sesame and cashew nuts Robust International is expanding its footprint in Africa with three new processing plants now operational in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique. The company, headquartered in Singapore, is...
Owner: Creamer Family
EXCLUSIVE: Burkina Faso Land Grabbing Report ‘Deliberately Withheld’ to Protect Politicians, Anti-Corruption Group Says
A parliamentary report on links between a housing crisis and property development practices in Burkina Faso was “deliberately withheld” to protect members of the former ruling party, according to a leading anti-corruption group in the West African...
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When Privilege Turns To Power: The President’s Son And The Moral Burden Of Leade
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The Nigerian Voice
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Source: Dr. Abdulkarim Gidado Salimon A recent video trending on Instagram shows the son of Nigeria’s President driving through town with a glittering convoy of luxury cars, sirens blaring, and escorts clearing the road. For many Nigerians, it was...
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Gbeniyiri conflict: Burkina Faso blocks NADMO from meeting displaced persons, demands formal diplomacy
Authorities in Burkina Faso have blocked officials of Ghana’s National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) from accessing Ghanaian refugees displaced by the Gbeniyiri conflict. The refugees, numbering about 5,621, fled to Kpere in Burkina...
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Lawra Naa commends President Mahama’s vision for agricultural sector, infrastructure development
By Abigail Nurutome Sommutaar Lawra, (UW/R), Oct. 09, GNA – Naa Puowele Karbo III, the Paramount Chief of the Lawra Traditional Area, has commended the President John Dramani Mahama-led government for its renewed focus on promoting agriculture and...
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GAF AG to upgrade Burkina Faso’s mining cadastre system (eMC+)
GAF AG, an e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) company, has been awarded a World Bank-funded contract to modernise and expand Burkina Faso’s mining cadastre system eMC+ within the framework of the Support to Land and Mining Management Strengthening Project...
Owner: NES Africa Group
Recognizing 65 years of the Peace Corps: A bipartisan call to service
As our nation prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, the nearly quarter-million people who have served in the Peace Corps are marking a milestone launched 65 years ago, on Oct. 14, 1960. × In the early hours of that morning, then...
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Three years on since Burkina Faso’s coup d’état, violence continues unabated
It’s been three years since Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso through a coup d’état. He justified his takeover by claiming previous leaders had failed to protect the country from jihadist violence and promised to restore security...
Owner: Pedro Vargas David & Luís Santos
Congo to start building gold reserves as price surges, central bank governor says
By Duncan Miriri and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) -The Democratic Republic of Congo will start building gold reserves to bolster its currency and lift its economy, the central bank governor said, joining a rush in Africa and elsewhere to...
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Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso set to expose Nigerian politicians allegedly backing bandits
Intelligence agencies from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have announced plans to unveil the identities of senior Nigerian politicians allegedly linked to bandit groups wreaking havoc across Nigeria’s North-West. Officials of the agencies confirmed...
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Ghana’s Industrial Failure Not Economic But Political
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Modern Ghana
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Every administration since 1966 has tried to erase the legacy of its predecessor rather than continue it. Industrialization, however, demands policy continuity, not political rivalry. Nkrumah built factories; Busia dismantled them. Acheampong...
Owner: Kwame Owusu
Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees
Land restoration in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest and Kadiogo regions is women’s work. Here, women have made fertilizer trees their indispensable allies in reviving farmland. Thanks to these nitrogen-fixing and shade-providing trees, they’re...
Owner: Rhett Ayers Butler
Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso Set To Expose Nigerian Politicians Aiding Bandits
Intelligence agencies in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have announced plans to unveil the identities of senior Nigerian politicians allegedly linked to bandit groups operating in Nigeria’s North-West region. The disclosure was first reported by...
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Acting President Chiwenga to officially open 27th Mine Entra Expo
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga is today expected to officially open the 27th edition of the Mining, Engineering and Transport (Mine Entra) Expo at the Zimbabwe International Conference and Exhibition Smart City (ZICES) in Bulawayo. The...
Owner: Zimbabwean Government
Burkina Faso’s strongman has gone viral
His American accent is generic, his facial features a touch blurry. But the words have a ring of truth to them. “Africa must unite,” says the ai-generated likeness of Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s 37-year-old president. And then, after a pause:...
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