Burkina Faso
Traoré appoints his ex-professor Nicolas Kagambéga as mining adviser

A senior official at the mines ministry has been made special adviser to the junta leader, who was his student at the university of Ouagadougou. But his appointment could spark tensions within the mining sector. [...]
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