A close look at Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traore

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🛑 Senegal 🇸🇳- “Donald
Trump has blocked a project in Senegal worth more than 316 billion FCFA.” - Ousmane Sonko

“You heard the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announce the suspension of all programs intended for developing countries for a period of three months, the time to evaluate them and decide on the follow-up.

Senegal was to benefit from this project in the field of energy, to the tune of more than 500 million dollars,”
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said on the sidelines of the launch of a project to supply drinking water in rural areas.

He called on the Senegalese to concentrate more on work and to reduce their dependence on external aid.

“Can we continue to hope for what comes from abroad? It is time to refocus on our work,” he said.

Yes Mr Prime Minister, get your people to work because, it’s not Trump’s job to provide you with potable water.

It’s just a disgrace that in 2025, a large population of Africans still don’t have potable water. What a shame!

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🇧🇫 BURKINA Faso flagship cooking oil manufacturer SN CITEC, expands it's oil extraction capability.

The Minister came to show it's support and to address some workers grievance. The workers and the company made an endeavour to see the company succeeds..

Africans can choose to worry over USAID, or they can see it as an opportunity to cut this umbilical cords of dependency.

Sky is the limit of our capabilities.

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Whilst other nations are acting in indignity, begging Donald Trump to resume USAID, Comrade Ibrahim Traore is busy building and transforming Burkina Faso from top to bottom.

Massive delivery of Road construction and Farming equipments, arrives in Burkina Faso, as construction commences.

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It is done.

Property ownership going to the state.

Foreign nationals will in future be able to lease on a long time basis, but not own property in Burkina Faso, unless you are from nations enjoying free movement.

These proposals as well as the 1st preference to Burkinabes in the mining industry, were Implemented at the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday.

We simply can't have settler colonies in West Africa. We must preserve Africa for the future generation.

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🛑Burkina 🇧🇫: Let me address the draft law about foreigners who will no longer be able to hold title deed on rural land!

I see a lot of misunderstanding and criticism about the draft law that was taken at the council of ministers this past Wednesday concerning foreigners who will no longer be able to hold title deed on our rural land.

According to the Minister in charge of Economy, Dr. Aboubakar Nacanabo, this bill aims to ensure that land management is improved and that the State can assert its leadership on the issue.

“Through this bill, it is planned that the land now belongs to the State,” he argued.
For him, the bill includes major innovations including the possibility of a long-term lease that goes from 18 to 99 years in the context of agricultural production and the recognition of customary rights.

Added to these innovations is the impossibility for a foreigner to hold a title deed on rural land, Minister Nacanabo specified.

I saw some pseudo intellectuals from Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 attacking
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for this new bill by saying that we claim to be pan-Africans and yet we’re passing stupid laws that contradict what pan-Africanism is all about. They are even wondering if we know what pan-Africanism means at all.

Fortunately, people shut down those idiots by pulling a section of the Ivorian constitution that stipulates the exact same bill that we are now trying to pass. But, that’s not even my point.

Here’s the thing, if you recall when
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jailed the CEO of Australian gold mine Resolute, Mr Terence Holohan, I stated that we must pass laws to make it impossible for foreign companies or multinationals to own land in the AES.

Why is that important? Because, these people used to own the mines. They own them because, we have given them the title deeds of the lands they are operating on.

This is also one of the reasons why they feel they can do whatever the hell they want, and hold 80% of the profit while the State has 20%. It is the same **** going on with Barrick gold in Mali 🇲🇱.

I don’t see any African moving to Europe or America who can own land there as a foreigner. So, why should we as Africans accept what they will never accept ? Moreover, with the Chinese and Indians moving to buy lands in Africa, we must put an end to this madness!

This bill will ensure that the likes of Bill Gates stay away from us as he is now the larger farmland owner in the U.S. to grow his GMO crops.

We have not forgotten how he bribed the corrupt regime of Roch Marc Christian KABORE to accept his GMO mosquitoes back in 2018, and the resulting deadly malaria outbreak that killed our people the following years.

This move got nothing that goes against pan-Africanism, it’s the right thing to do. If you are an African and you move into the AES, you’re welcome! But you will have to abide by the laws of the land. Plain and simple!

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🇧🇫🇧🇫 Massive sugar factory "SN-SOSUCO", with a capacity of 30,000 Tonnes of sugar, inaugurted in Burkina Faso:

Burkina Faso establish a sugar manufacturing factory, from its own locally produced cane.

With a capacity of 30, 000 tonnes of Sugar a year, this factory is at present only able to cater for a fifth of Burkina Faso 150,000 tonnes of Sugar a year.

But it is a start, and Faso is getting there. With further investment, capacity will increase to cover the other four fifth.

All it took for Burkina Faso to get to this, was kicking out the colonisers and establish new partnership.

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🇧🇫West Africa's biggest Condensed Milk and dairy products factory, soon to be inaugurated in Faso:

🇧🇫Burkina Faso is embarking on the path of innovation with the inauguration of the largest condensed milk manufacturing plant in West Africa, led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré.

This groundbreaking project draws on the abundance of locally produced milk, strengthening the local economy and creating jobs. By promoting its natural resources and supporting its farmers, the country aspires to become a key player in the African agri-food sector.

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🇧🇫🇧🇫A drastic socialist solution to food inflation in Burkina Faso.

As mentioned in my yesterday's post, Burkina Faso initiated a new policy to reduce food insecurity and inflation.

In return for locally produced fertilisers and tractors, offered by the state, local farmers provided the state tonnes of cereals.

Now the State is going to areas suffering serious food inflation, and selling these produce at 40% the market value.

In the video, a 50kg bag of maize costing 14,000CFA ($24) was sold at 6,000CFA ($9) by the state.

This is a government that cares about the needs of its people.

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🇧🇫🇧🇫Burkina Faso's mechanised agriculture is working like a fine tuned machine. State plan to export rice and wheat to regional states in the near future:

The Burkinabe state set up a new system whereby farmers are provided subsiszed fertilisers in return for, harvested rice, which the state in turn sell to the population at a subsidised rate.

607 Tonnes of domestically produced and packaged rice transferred to the state under this fantastic scheme.

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Burkinabe student researchers are doing some exemplary work. Whlist other African nations have been made to look down on agriculture and treat it as an unworthy career path, Faso are promoting their's & offering them scholarships and grants. The results speaks for themselves.

We have seen a 33% increase increase in rice production from 500k Tonnes to 675k Tonnes.

Now they are working on different varieties of rice, the research and harvest for that is going exceptionally well too.

Soon Burkinabe willl be producing Basmati and other rice varieties that are not native to the African continent.

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🇧🇫Burkina Faso's Agricultural revolution :

For decades, Burkinabes were told they can't grow Pineapples, and that they had to import it from overseas.

Now domestically trained Burkinabe scientists, have conducted research on the soil and what organic fertilisers would derive better yields, and the result is phenomenal. They have cracked the nuts.

So far, over 100 tonnes of Pineapples have been harvested, better quality and taste.

The government invested CFA 9 million, and they have made a profit of over 25 million.

With great leadership there is no impossibities for Africans. Sky is our limit.

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BURKINA FASO'S QUEST FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara (1949-87) once said, ‘He who feeds you, controls you.’ Throughout the revolution he led, Sankara placed great emphasis on food sovereignty and local production. Today, Burkina Faso's new Pan-African president, Ibrahim Traoré, does the same.

Through a new people’s investment programme, Burkina Faso allows Burkinabé people to invest in entrepreneurial projects to play a direct role in the country's development. Despite growing tomatoes locally, most Burkinabé purchase imported tomato paste from other countries to use in various local recipes. However, through this programme, Burkina Faso was able to open a new tomato paste factory on 30 November in the city of Bobo Dioulasso.

In this same vein,
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(X) also gifted Burkinabé farmers with 20 new optical rice sorters valued at $300,000 to advance local rice production by as much as 3 tonnes per hour per certain machines. Rice is a staple, yet Asian countries export most of the rice Burkinabé people eat. Now, Burkina Faso can increase local rice production for consumption and export.

The government has called on both residents of the country and the diaspora worldwide to donate to the people’s investment programme to support these government-led entrepreneurial activities. For more information, visit http://apec.bf

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HERO'S WELCOME FOR BURKINA FASO TROOPS

On 17 March, people from the eastern town of Bilanga poured into the streets to welcome Burkina Faso’s soldiers.

Two years after a popular military coup ousted a military leader, Paul-Henri Damiba, schools have reopened and government workers have resumed work. This comes four months after the Burkinabé military regained control of the border town of Falagountou and after neighbouring Mali’s re-took the northeastern town of Kidal. In both cases, the governments said armed militants had held the areas under siege.

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger—landlocked African countries in the arid Sahelian zone south of the Sahara Desert—have faced a security crisis ever since NATO overthrew Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, spurring armed groups throughout the 5,900-kilometre Sahel region. Burkina Faso had lost up to 40 per cent of its territory to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). However, recent developments show Burkina Faso’s new government has been reclaiming land. Terrorism has killed thousands of Africans and displaced millions, creating an economic and humanitarian burden in the Sahel region.

Western forces occupying the Sahel since the early 2010s did little to reverse the security crisis. More terrorism-related deaths occurred after their arrival than before, according to the Global Terrorism Index. Sahelian casualties account for 43 per cent of all terrorism deaths worldwide, compared to just 1 per cent in 2007. This surge, as well as the lack of support from Western occupiers, prompted Mali to kick out France in 2022, Burkina Faso and Niger to order out France in 2023, and Niger last month to nullify a military agreement with the United States.
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