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Military suspends the Consyitution.
A very troubled and insecure country.
RT Question more ,live.
Perhaps as well CEY are out.
January 24, 202210:55 PM GMTLast Updated an hour ago
Corinne Dufka, West Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said Kabore's government had shown itself unable to tackle a range of problems.
"The coup, and apparent support for it, lays bare the inadequacies of Kabore's government to address deep-seated problems with corruption, governance and civilian protection, which were all made exponentially worse by the armed Islamist threat," she said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-president-kabore-detained-military-camp-sources-tell-reuters-2022-01-24/
If you don‘t like pickpockets, crime or watching your back at every turn, perhaps Burkina Faso isn't the best destination for you.
https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/western-africa/burkina-faso/burkina-faso-crime?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=RjUVKGzRVXfYi9VNZx5XqEOI9kikD1hZII4V34mF4fY-1643070313-0-gaNycGzNCBE
For security reasons, the FCDO advises against all but essential travel to:
the capital Ouagadougou, up to the toll booths on all roads out of the city
The FCDO advises against all travel to: the rest of Burkina Faso
https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChat.asp?ShareTicker=CEY&share=Centamin-PLC&thread=0DCE92ED-BFC8-43B7-A342-165EF15ACBCA&reply=true
Quite honestly is this really a good choice of countries to invest orr build gold mines in?
Sounds like a basket case country that Centamin should have never got involved in, far better to sell up if anyone will buy and cut its losses to invest more in a safer and more stable political environment.
Tibbs
Mr T
Burkina Faso has not always been like this. The reasons it is having trouble are many. A few observations.
1. Prior to the brutal French invasion, the Mossi Kingdom had ruled Burkina Faso, and lasted for several centuries,
2. The effect of the French on Burkina has been consistently net negative, not unlike Mali, where in short they are detested.
3. The French have been "more accepted" when they have propped up an unpopular and unsavory President [Compaore ](for 27 years), but this is an odd form of acceptance, given the way the Compaore family robbed the poor to pay the rich (themselves and friends)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-burkina-mining-corruption-idUSKCN12Q2QO
(etc)
4. The power vaccum left by the Coup which threw Compaore out (to the French disgust) has been filled by various players, who have neither the competence, the know how, or the correct foreign asistance to manage the country.
5. The country is natural resource poor, and industries it does try and operate in, like cotton have foreign government subsidized companies compete gainst them. Cotton subsidies have long been seen as a symbol of the injustice of the international trading system. The subsidies provided by richer countries give their farmers an artificial advantage in global markets, while depressing global prices and undermining the livelihoods of farmers in low-income countries, many of whom struggle in conditions of severe poverty and hardship...
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/chinas-cotton-subsidies-immiserate-farmers-worlds-poorest-countries
and the gold industry is plagued with profit shifting at the big end of town, and corruption and exploitation at the bottom end
(environmental degradation child labor, exploitation of the poor and uneducated etc)
Over simplyifying things, but if you have no job, no education, no trade, no prospects, cant marry the local girl as you are too poor?, and someone comes up and gives you a gun some bullets, and $5/day, what does a poor man do.
The electoral system imposed by the west is simply not amenable to West Africa. As a result they express their dispeasure frequently, by protesting, and when this does not work, then the army moves in, and a Coup is called. More people die in traffic accidents in the country than by Coup's.
Instead of spending billions every year on "security" [which sees foreign soldiers come into their land and Mali], well paid, well fed, and fail every year and this goes on for decades, one would question, just how does doing the same thing that has failed so consistently year after year, make any sense. It does not.
How would you feel if you were sent to fight a battle and were not given a gun but were given a handful of bullets, you were given a vehicle (no armour) but not a lot of petrol...and your platoon got wiped out in the first skirmish....slightly peeved?
sorry about the rant,
the gnome
Hi Gnome,
Not a rant at all, simply the facts that the rest of the worlds political elite never care to acknowledge , face up to and help to address the issues of exploitation and corruption by those who should know better, no indeed they prefer to just turn a blind eye and exploit these counties aided their arms dealers, unscrupulous mining and energy companies and the Shi(tes running the worlds stock markets!