FILE -- Soldiers during the opening ceremony of a training exercise in Burkina Faso, Feb. 18, 2019. Thousands of Islamic State fighters are still at large in Iraq and Syria, rearming and regrouping. And the group pose threats elsewhere, in Afghanistan, West Africa and the Philippines. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
Mining and insecurity threats: Can Burkina Faso benefit from the income from its land while it is still facing jihadist attacks?
With high-potential regions such as Nouna in the west and Essakane in the north, Burkina Faso is on the way to becoming an oil and uranium producer.
Ethiopia has attracted 3.82 billion USD foreign direct investment(FDI) during the just concluded Ethiopian Fiscal Year, according to Ethiopian Investment Commission.
Today, Ethiopia along with the other four new member countries, officially joined the BRICS, the emerging-markets bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China...
