By John Liebhardt, Burkina Faso: My friend Ahmed left today for Abidjan. He is from Burkina Faso, so it’s not world-breaking news. Before Cote d’Ivoire’s ethnic troubles became entangled into a civil war, somewhere around 2 million Burkinabé had lived and worked in the country.
You could say that Ahmed’s decision to [...]

“Grand claims are my comfort. West African politics my balm”, is the opener on Africa Flak’s post titled “Peace through Strength: A new path for Guinea?“. Excerpts:

For the first time in recent history, we can safely attest that West Africa is home to no rogue states or outlandish bully governments. Sierra Leone and Liberia have [...]

TradeNet is an online portal set up for traders and producers to “access prices for specific commodities and markets throughout West Africa”. The portal also permits SMS messaging ; users can receive alerts on prices and commodities and access “market conditions” via their cellphones.
TradeNet is conceived under the MISTOWA project which aims to increase [...]

ForeignCorrepondent.Net has as interesting article titled: “Selling Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso] by the Pound”. These interesting excerpts below are the observations of the author:
I once sat through a US-government sponsored training to African artisans looking to export their masks, pottery, jewelry, etc. to Europe and the United States. One of the presenters was a half-Ghanaian, half-German [...]

Burkina Faso missionary-expatriate and blogger, Keith Smith, writes via Under the Acacias:
I go over to Essakane occasionally, about 40km from Gorom-Gorom, to visit the pastor there. It is one of those bizarre and disturbing paradoxes: the least developed region of the 4th poorest country in the world – and there is a rich deposit [...]