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...Smart read John Thornhill on how the US is entering a Sputnik moment for state-led tech investment....
...Targeted countries include Burkina Faso, Niger and Sudan. A third strand of the Russian efforts to undermine western support is via diplomatic outreach to Muslim communities....
...Some of these conflicts — in Mali and Burkina Faso, in particular — have become much more serious over the past year....
...Field tests in Burkina Faso’s Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) and further research in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University in the US and other international partners suggested...
...Wagner as a tool of imperialism in Africa, and that it offered “a Faustian pact” to leaders in the Central African Republic, Mali and “perhaps the contenders for power in Sudan or the new rulers of Burkina Faso...
...Additional reporting by Roman Olearchyk and John Paul Rathbone in Kyiv...
...Her first visit to the continent in 1985 was for the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma d’Ouagadougou (Fespaco), a biennial beacon in Burkina Faso for pan-African cinema....
...Everybody is feeling the pinch,” says John Asafu-Adjaye, a senior fellow at the Accra-based African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) think-tank....
...Last year, she went to Burkina Faso to raise awareness around the plight of women affected by issues like genital mutilation, forced marriage, underage pregnancy and education barriers....
...In Burkina Faso there are 11 machines for 19m citizens, while Sierra Leone has 18 for a population of 7.5m....
...Faure Gnassingbé told the Financial Times that jihadis based in Burkina Faso were starting to make incursions into Togo and neighbouring Ghana....
...John Faso, a first-term Republican who represents New York’s 19th congressional district, is locked in a battle with Democrat Antonio Delgado, a Rhodes scholar and African-American....
...“They are less effective at gathering revenue than Burkina Faso,” says John Ashbourne, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics....
...But, like other countries in west Africa, Burkina Faso has suffered several attacks by jihadis during the past few years....
...“If I want to export pharmaceuticals from here to [neighbouring] Burkina Faso I have to export them first to France,” Mr Kouassi said....
...China has invested about $125bn in African countries in the decade to 2016, according to the China-Africa Research Initiative at Washington’s Johns Hopkins University....
...“If the IMF is right that would obviously be awful, a very depressing result,” said John Ashbourne, Africa economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy. “They have a very rapidly growing population....
...Acacia also has operations in Kenya, Mali and Burkina Faso but none of these mines are producing. Acacia’s share price fell 13 per cent to 261p on Monday....
...Turkish firms are easily felled by poor infrastructure, legal issues and a lack of banking options, says Sarp Tarhanaci ofAG Precious Metals, which exports gold from Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana to Turkey...
...Old dictatorships, such as that in Burkina Faso, have crumbled, and sturdy democratic traditions — in the context of Africa’s short and turbulent postcolonial history — have held firm in countries as far...
...BURKINA FASO Recent turmoil in Burkina Faso underlines the potential pitfalls for leaders who want to extend their rule....
...Additional reporting by John Aglionby Twitter: @davidpilling...
Sunday’s poll closely watched as others consider term change
...The prospect of the world’s markets for crop seeds and agrochemicals being dominated by so few companies is “just extraordinary”, says John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK....
...by training who lost two of her children to orphan ailments, she worked for patients groups in Europe before returning to Africa to create foundations called Fitima in her native Guinea and in Burkina Faso...
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