West African leaders are to discuss the turmoil in crisis-hit Mali at a summit in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Thursday after soldiers who overthrew an elected government in March defeated a ...
The bloc of West African states, Ecowas, has set coup leaders in Mali a three-day ultimatum to restore constitutional order or face diplomatic and economic isolation.
West African leaders may call for the speaker of Mali’s parliament to become interim president following last week’s military coup, Burkina Faso’s foreign minister has told RFI.
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Burkina Faso is the third African country, after Egypt and South Africa, to commercialise genetically modified cotton in 2008. But that has not kept prices from dropping.
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Libya - South Africa - France - report
South African officials deny reports that President Jacob Zuma has brokered a deal to allow Moamer Kadhafi temporary asylum in Burkina Faso. Earlier reports said that France and Niger were also involved
Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaoré's presidential guard on Friday went on the offensive against mutinous troops in the economic capital in the south-west, Bobo Dioulasso, witnesses ...
