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Africa Burkina Faso bans colonial-era wigs in courtrooms Burkina Faso has prohibited judges from wearing colonial-era wigs in court, aiming to embrace local traditions and distance itself from ...
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A bold plan to save Africa’s shrinking giraffe herds
This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... as gifts to the presidents of nearby Nigeria and Burkina Faso. Not a single captured giraffe survived the operation ...
Burkina Faso’s nature reserves are worth protecting – but people have to be part of the plan
Burkina Faso’s little-known nature reserves need protection. They are a key stopover point for the 2.1 billion birds that ...
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Burkina Faso junta has not paid off country’s debt, doesn’t control resources
In 2019 and 2020, China loaned Burkina Faso $157 million for the National Backbone and SMART Burkina projects involving information and communication technology advancement. There is no ...
Wyoming News15d
Thousands rally in Burkina, Mali and Niger to cheer ECOWAS exit
Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, due to take effect ...
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Thousands rally in Burkina, Mali and Niger to cheer ECOWAS exit
Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back ... on Tuesday before heading towards the nearby National Assembly. They chanted slogans hostile to French ...
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Why did Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso leave ECOWAS?
02/04/2025 February 4, 2025 The military-led governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have officially left ECOWAS. We look at what led to the fallout, how ECOWAS tried to get them back, and ...
The National Interest20d
Burkina Faso Coup
The United States announced on Friday that it would suspend a $160 million aid package to Burkina Faso after an internal review concluded that the military’s overthrow of President Roch ...