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In the cotton-growing villages of western Burkina Faso, the trucks from SOFITEX have arrived every season for decades. They come at harvest time, collecting the white bolls that smallholder farmers in Boucle du Mouhoun have grown under the company’s input credit system — seeds and fertilizer on credit, repaid in cotton at harvest. The arrangement […]
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On a Friday in mid-April 2026, West African Resources Limited suspended trading in its shares on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company’s statement was measured — a trading halt to “ensure orderly trading and an informed market” while it prepared a formal response to a government proposal. The share suspension lasted until April 21. What […]
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Togo has extradited Burkina Faso’s former president, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, to Ouagadougou after authorities there accused him of plotting to assassinate current leader Ibrahim Traoré. Once a coup leader himself, Damiba ruled briefly in 2022 before being overthrown and fleeing into exile, where the junta says he continued to orchestrate destabilization efforts. Beyond the alleged […]
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