People on social media are cheering for Burkina Faso as internet users post videos of new road-construction vehicles pouring into the country via Ghana.
Featuring the world’s youngest president, 36-year-old Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso has gained a positive reputation across the region and the continent for charting a development plan independent of former coloniser France and the West.
In recent years, the country opened two tomato-paste factories and began constructing a gold refinery and a mining-residue treatment facility. Recently, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), to which Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger belong, revealed a plan to develop roads and railways to connect the countries’ major cities as part of its goal of free movement within the AES. The ultimate goal is to create a federated country.
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