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From Cotton to Uniforms, Burkina Faso Boosts its Textile Industry
[Bird Story Agency] By introducing traditional fabrics into school, judicial and military uniforms, as well as some public-service attire, Burkina Faso is seeking to create a sustainable market for locally processed cotton. The policy could support spinning mills, women weavers a...
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Insecurity Is Crippling Economies On the Cameroon-Chad Trade Corridor
[ISS] Terrorism, kidnapping and crumbling roads are combining to choke a trade lifeline linking Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.
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Leaders of Senegal and France 'review partnership' at UN assembly
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York....
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On Int'l Day of Peace, Calls From Eastern Chad and Darfur to End Sudan's War
[Dabanga] Eastern Chad / Darfur -- Sudanese refugees in camps in eastern Chad, as well as advocacy groups in Darfur, have renewed calls for an end to the war in Sudan, which has been raging since April 2023, and for an end to the suffering caused by displacement and exile. The ap...
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There's No Conspiracy in the Sahel - - There's a Gap, and Bamako Knows How to Use It
[African Arguments] A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel's military governments. It's a tidy story. It bundles sa...