In two years, Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso
1. Burkina Faso's GDP grew from approximately $18.8 billion to $22.1 billion.
2. He has rejected loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. He said, "Africa doesn't need the World Bank, IMF, Europe, or America."
3. He reduced the salaries of ministers and parliamentarians by 30% and increased the salaries of civil servants by 50%.
4. He paid off Burkina Faso's local debts.
5. He established two tomato processing plants, the first-ever in Burkina Faso.
6. In 2023, he inaugurated a state-of-the-art gold mine to enhance local processing capabilities.
7. He stopped the export of unrefined Burkina Faso gold to Europe.
8. He built Burkina Faso’s second cotton processing plant. Previously, the country had only one.
9. He opened the first-ever National Support Center for Artisanal Cotton Processing to assist local cotton farmers.
10. He banned the wearing of British legal wigs and gowns in local courts and introduced traditional Burkinabé attire.
11. He prioritized agriculture by distributing over 400 tractors, 239 tillers, 710 motor pumps, and 714 motorcycles to boost production and support rural stakeholders.
12. He provided access to improved seeds and other farm inputs to maximize agricultural output.
13. Tomato production in Burkina Faso increased from 315,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 360,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
14. Millet production rose from 907,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 1.1 million metric tonnes in 2024.
15. Rice production increased 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 banned French media in Burkina Faso.
18. He expelled French troops from Burkina Faso.
19. His government is constructing new roads, widening existing ones, and upgrading gravel roads to paved surfaces.
20. He is building a new airport, the Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport, which is expected to be completed in 2025 with a capacity to handle 1 million passengers annually.
Minyak yg keluar dari perut bumi bukan dalam bentuk Euro5, ProDrive, Ron95, dll. Kena cari satu tempat proses utk jadikan minyak mentah tu kualiti apa, jenis apa.
Dalam kes Petronas kena fitnah jual diesel ke Filipina ni sebenarnya diesel tu milik Syarikat Vitol yg HQ dia di Geneva.
Vitol beli minyak dari beberapa negara - India ada Timur Tengah ada, bila cukup dia nak bawa ke Filipina.
Vitol kena singgah la di Johor pasai kalau nak tapis minyak kemudahan kelas dunia ada di Pengerang, nak pindah muatan ship-to-ship boleh buat di Tg Pelepas.
Situ duduknya.
HR: We lost a high-performing employee today.
CEO: What happened?
HR: The company hired someone fresh out of college into the same role and paid them more than him, even after he gave us 11 years.
CEO: But we pay well for this job.
HR: He earns 55,000 after more than a decade of loyalty. The new hire started at 70,000.
CEO: That’s unfortunate, but that’s the market rate for new talent.
HR: And now we’ve lost the person who actually carried the role for years.
CEO: Fine. Declare the position vacant.
HR: With what budget?
CEO: 80,000 starting salary.
Companies will underpay loyal employees for years, then suddenly find a bigger budget the moment those employees leave.
The problem is rarely money. It is how little they value the people who stayed.
Setiap malam ZRA buat live terangkan tentang kesan perang Iran.. Rakyat marhain mulai terkesan dengan kenaikan harga minyak.. Selepas ini, dijangka dunia akan lalui krisis kenaikan harga makanan ekoran kenaikan harga baja ammonia pula..
Rakyat dah kena ikat perut dan menabung..
Fun fact...
Islam adalah agama yang banyak menggunakan air. Wudhu, mandi besar, bersuci itu membutuhkan air.
Maka... umat Islam seharusnya peduli dengan kelestarian air bersih. Jangan dikit² buang sampah di sungai.
Honestly? I woke up today feeling grateful.
Not because everything is perfect. But because of what didn’t happen.
With the war in the Middle East pushing oil prices up, things are getting harder everywhere.
Unsubsidised RON95 in Malaysia just hit RM3.87 a litre.
Our neighbours are under real pressure. Philippines. Thailand. Cambodia. Laos.
Even Australia is facing a fuel crisis right now.
These are not just statistics.
These are real people, families trying to get to work, small business owners watching their costs double overnight, ordinary folks doing their best in a situation they didn’t create.
If you’re reading this, hang in there.
But yesterday, our PM announced that our subsidised petrol at RM1.99 stays.
Yes, the quota drops from 300L to 200L in April.
And I keep thinking, this kind of stability doesn’t just happen.
It took decades. Generations of leaders building diplomatic relationships quietly in the background.
Policy makers running the numbers at midnight.
Civil servants holding things together without anyone knowing their name.
People who never made the news but made the difference.
This moment of relative calm, they built it. Long before this crisis ever came.
But it also took something very Malaysian.
We have this rare ability to sit with anyone, different races, different religions, different backgrounds and just get along.
In a world that’s fracturing right now, that’s actually a superpower.
So today I’m not taking it for granted.
To everyone working behind the scenes, thank you. We see you.
Syukur.
And to our neighbours and friends from around world, you’ve got this. 🙏🇲🇾
Sementara kita sedang beraya
Sementara kita sedang main mercun
Sementara kita sedang makan lemang
Sementara kita sedang balik kampung
PMX bekerja keras non stop setiap hari 🔥
Kalau betul berlaku, masih sangat-sangat lah ok untuk kita dengan situasi sangat mencabar ni.
Negara lain dah macam tahap darurat dah kesan daripada perang ni, tapi kalau kita masih dapat kuota 200 liter RON95 dengan harga RM1.99, memang sangat ok.
iran tutup selat hormuz sebab trump bodo tapi pmx yang kena marah sebab minyak naik harga hahaha
hang 24/7 pegang phone, tak follow ke isu semasa? adu penat la kalau macamni
Egypt charge tolls for the Suez Canal.
Panama charge fees for the Panama Canal.
Turkey charge fees for Bosporus Strait.
Canada charge fees for the St Lawrence Seaway.
United States charge for the St Lawrence Seaway.
Iran kept the Strait toll free for decades and they are somehow still the terrible guys.