Two Years of President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso: A Report Since Assuming Leadership of the Nation
1. Burkina Faso's GDP rose from around $18.8 billion to $22.1 billion.
2. He declined loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, stating, "Africa doesn’t need the World Bank, IMF, Europe, or America."
3. He cut the salaries of ministers and parliamentarians by 30% while raising civil servants' salaries by 50%.
4. He cleared Burkina Faso's domestic debts.
5. He established the country's first-ever tomato processing plants.
6. In 2023, he launched a modern gold mine to strengthen local processing capacity.
7. He halted the export of unrefined gold from Burkina Faso to Europe.
8. He constructed Burkina Faso’s second cotton processing plant, adding to the single existing one.
9. He inaugurated the National Support Center for Artisanal Cotton Processing, the first of its kind, to aid local cotton farmers.
10. He prohibited the use of British legal wigs and gowns in local courts, replacing them with traditional Burkinabé attire.
11. He prioritized agriculture by distributing over 400 tractors, 239 tillers, 710 motor pumps, and 714 motorcycles to enhance production and support rural communities.
12. He facilitated access to improved seeds and other agricultural inputs to maximize farming yields.
13. Tomato production grew from 315,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 360,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
14. Millet production increased from 907,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 1.1 million metric tonnes in 2024.
15. Rice production rose from 280,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 326,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
16. He banned French military operations in Burkina Faso.
17. He prohibited French media from operating in the country.
18. He expelled French troops from Burkina Faso.
19. His government is building new roads, expanding existing ones, and converting gravel roads into paved surfaces.
In 1855, a young enslaved black woman named Celia killed a white man who raped her.
A Missouri judge stated that an slave woman had no right to refuse her “master.” She was later convicted of murder and hanged.
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront history.
—Celia was tried, convicted, and ultimately executed for killing her owner. Celia confessed: She had tried to put a stop to what had been five years of sexual abuse. At the center of the trial was a dramatic confrontation over the legal standing of enslaved women. Did an enslaved woman have the right to defend herself against sexual assault?
Drawing on Celia’s own words, her court-appointed defense team said “yes.”
Prosecutors, the trial judge, jurors, and the state high court all rejected Celia’s claim.
Enslaved women did not have the same right to self-defense accorded to free women under Missouri law, they concluded.
To allow such resistance would have been to strike at the heart of slaveholders’ power. It also would have recognized the legal personhood, honor, and rights of enslaved women, undermining slavery’s legitimacy.
In subsequent years, legislators and jurists in other slave states made more explicit that sexual coercion of slaves was not a crime. It is this state sanctioned sexual assault that is a baneful legacy of slavery. Even today, it contributes to erroneous ideas about black women as lacking honor and “virtue,” making them especially vulnerable to sexual abuse.
Somewhere in Zamfara State ,this young lady was forced into marriage but ran back home to take her books to go back to school . Please pass it on to the world so that she can get justice. Probably a real war can be fought to stop this barbarism .
RT🙏
Kudos to Southern Cameroonian Cindy Ngamba for winning the first ever Olympic medal for the Refugee Team. Olympics created the Refugee Team in 2016 to represent the world's 120 million plus displaced. She beat a Canadian, Panamanian, and French boxers.
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@nezeville Did you call her a Lawyer ? So she doesn't know the legal implications of taking a 10 yrs old as a maid and inflicting such pain on her is inhuman ? Let her face the law . No mercy for such a brut.
Fundong, Boyo State - Aug 14, 2023 - Massive landslide cuts off Fundong, the divisional headquarters of Boyo, from the rest of Kom. God has a way of revealing strategy & making the "wise" look foolish. No caterpillars or grenades in Jericho. #LetMyPeopleGo. #Amba@GrandAtango237
@jacksonhinkle@hellow_october Foreign aids are the biggest threat to Africa's development. No foreign aid, there won’t be influence in the affairs of Africa.
Self-reliance and self-sufficiency are the way forward in Africa.
My best investment in 2023 will be:
Health.
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