Your go-to English source for news from Ouagadougou and Burkina Faso, updated daily.
The lifting of the strike notice at the Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex has been presented as a victory for social dialogue. In reality, it conceals a financial pact of an entirely different nature. Behind the public compromise on working conditions, the agreement between Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold and union leaders rests on an operation to […]
Moussa Kaka disappearance: Niger under scrutiny as calls for answers grow louder In Niger, journalist Moussa Kaka has been missing since 31 August. Senegalese human rights expert Alioune Tine has condemned what he calls “the total indifference of the African and international community” to this “forced disappearance.” He is calling for mobilisation of African public […]