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On 14 August, the defence ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – GeneralsSadio Camara,Célestin Simporé andSalifou Modi – were in Moscow for talks with...

Burkina Faso’s military government says that industrial gold production will increase by 4% this year on the back of projects led by Mauritian and Australian firms. That extra...

CaptainIbrahim Traoré’s regime in Ouagadougou has uncovered yet another ‘plot’ showing that Burkina Faso’s security crisis is deepening in many different ways.

On 23 April, Niger advanced its mineral development by partnering with Emirati firm Suvarna Royal Gold Trading LLC. The deal, formalised in Niamey, establishes Royal Gold Niger SA,...

Through his visits to the military rulers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in the week ending 14 March, Ghana’s PresidentJohn Dramani Mahama may have helped thaw...

It’s not even two years since the 34-year-old CaptainIbrahim Traoré overthrew his mentor, the previous military leader, Lieutenant-ColonelPaul Henri Damiba, with whom he had worked to...

The crowds in Bamako, Ouagadougou and Niamey celebrating their countries’ break with the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on 29 January belie the...

The stand-off between GeneralAssimi Goïta’s military regime and Canada’s Barrick Gold has reached a critical point with the mining conglomerate suspending work at the Loulou-Gounkoto complex after...

Burkina Faso’s national airline, Air Burkina, has struggled for more than a decade. But instead of saving West Africa’s oldest airline, the junta of CaptainIbrahim Traoré had...

The standing of Burkina Faso’s transitional leader CaptainIbrahim Traoré, who seized power in September, has hit a new low. But public opinion is the least of his...

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