With each new regime in Burkina Faso comes a cohort of new figures from the business world. While personalities like Alizeta Ouédraogo, Lassine Diawara, Mahamadi Savadogo, or the billionaire Oumarou Kanazoé were prominent under Blaise Compaoré, and Mahamoudou Bonkoungou emerged under Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, it is now the turn of Ali Konaté, head of…...
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Alexandre Varel
Investigative journalist and essayist. Specialist in Africa and economic relations between Europe and Africa. Business networks, power dynamics, Paris, Abidjan, and Francophone Africa.
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