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.
I'm on my farm in Mbembesi. Nothing beats the feeling of working soil that rightfully belongs to you. Black ownership is dignity. Salute to the heroes of the liberation struggle for total independence. Zimbabwe is the only country in SADC where land is owned by us, the natives.
Imagine being so lost you claim a whole region because you couldn’t find a name for your own country. “South Africa” is a direction, not an identity. You are living in a British-coined "Union" and using a regional descriptor as a mask. The SADC border doesn’t end at the Limpopo.
My brain can’t comprehend how a monkey and a penguin get more attention than an actual human baby, starving in the middle of a genocide. People in Gaza deserve to live too. No child deserves to be starved to death or shot in the head.
This is 1997 Harare under @ZANUPF_Official but it only took 3 yrs for opposition parties to destroy Harare from 2000 todate Harare is like a jungle no traffic lights no markings no streets lights etc. Ngadziore is building majaradha matanga enguruve…..
If you’re wondering how intense the bombing in Beirut was yesterday, then you need to watch this video. It documents the bombardment around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, near my family’s home in
Nov 2023.
This is what we call a “fire belt,” in Arabic, meaning relentless, consecutive strikes that feel like hell itself. I lived through this many times in Gaza before we left for Egypt. It feels like the end of the world, as if you’re standing in flames from every direction, with no escape and no way out.
Don’t look away from this video.
#Gaza #Lebanon #Beirut #Israël #Israel
South Africans are really the Americans of Africa.
None of these are mutually exclusive, Mozambique is a Southern African country, Mozambique is an East African country, many countries are in multiple directions of the African continent and you are not the police of that.
I have just watched an Lebanese man tell Al Jazeera how he was on his way home and he saw a strike and just knew his family was gone
He spoke to seeing his family body parts everywhere including his little girls head
Sorry Israel is such a disgusting nation