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No gas in the gas stations.

The customers are waiting since hours for the precious liquid. Some tired of waiting are going back disappointed as never. A man,we met said he is very disappointed. He walk about 12 miles to find gas but all the stations are empty. In such situation One man loss is another gain. For the gas retailers it is time for good business. The liter of gas is sold for 2000 instead of 600.

This situation is due to the feud between 2 transporters’ trade unions OTRAF and UCRB. The drivers observed a strike for 72 hours. They were claiming for a better income. In addition to the income revalorization, the drivers are claiming for a better working condition.

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Hard time for the vegetable oil producers of Bobo Dioulasso.

We are at SN CITEC one the big producers of vegetable oil in Burkina Faso. Here the machines are running in slow motion. More than 60 percent representing 400 thousands oil cans are waiting to be sent in the markets. But till January to now, only 40 percent of oil have been sold. This situation is jeopardizing the future of this company and at the same time the jobs. According to this representative of SN SITEC, this is due to the illegal competition.

After the release of the counter-expertise of the DNA of Thomas Sankara, we met the lawyer Benewende Sankara. He is also the president of UNIR\PS a party promoting Sankara’s ideology and the vice-president of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso.

The counter-expertise of Thomas Sankara DNA required by the late captain’s heirs and 11 other families has finally delivered its results. This 2^nd result is without any big surprise and is confirming strongly the first DNA expertise done in laboratory in Marseille France republic on May 2015. Why a counter-expertise then?

The desert is not invincible, and the village of Djomga located in the middle of dunes in Sahel region is a very good token of this fight. Threatened by the moving hill of drifted sand in the past, today people of this village succeeded in making the dunes unmovable and are on the way to overcome the desert and this is thanks to reforestation. Thanks to this evidence, they motivated than never to wipe out the desert by planting spurge and shrubs.

Many partisans of the self defense groups called Koglweogo were demonstrating to free their fellows. Fada N’gourma,Kokolo at 8,6 miles from Ouagadougou and Koupela were held by demonstrators. Barricades were erected to trouble trafics. Police forces were forced to use teargas in order to bring calm in those area.

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The atmosphere at Fada N’gourma eastern Burkina was very tight this morning. The reason is that since many days now the Koglweogo of Fada”Koglweogo is a self defense group” were demonstrating to free 10 of their fellows that have been arrested for molesting 2 shepherds. The history began when Koglweogo fellows arrested and molested 2 alleged thieves

MAYDAY MAYDAY DONKEYS ENDANGERED IN BURKINA FASO

donkeys killed

police arresting donkeys killer

donkeys convoy

three wheels motorcycle

donkey use for domestic activities

Donkeys in Burkina are in a very big trouble. In the past they were not threatened,not disliked and not cherished too much like horses our national pride. Formerly used in cultivation as the motor dragging the plow,nowadays they are no more much used for tilling lands. They are used in carting. In the past the highly paid for a donkey was 20.000 local currency. Now while i am writing this mayday mayday for donkeys their price in the local markets alive is 40.000 CFA. 40.000CFA for one alive donkey,yes it is at this price that burkina citizens buy each of them. Donkeys’ nightmare started when chinese saw in them a good business. Not in using them to cart nor to cultivate but exporting them straightly to China. Yes a donkey as a raw material to trade with. Donkeys Would have loved to see themselves as immigrants to China. They would have been happy to visit big China. But unfortunately,only their skins will go their. Donkeys’ skins are so businesslike,so profitable that chinese pay higher price for them. The skin is most expensive than the donkey itself. 40.000 to 50.000 and even more in local currency. At this price many are selling donkeys and some turned themselves to donkeys slaughtering specialists. 3 weeks ago police arrested 3 guys, 1 nigerian and 2 compatriots who killed 4 donkeys and were intending to kill more than 30 others in a yard at Ouagadougou district. Like those guys how many are involved in this business in entire country? Countless probably. What do chinese do with the skins? Medicines? Shoes manufacturing? Nobody really knows. Rumor has it that killing donkeys is a strategy to eliminate definitively donkeys in order to promote 3 wheels motorcycle like the one in the picture. For the time being donkeys are still serious challengers of tricycle engines. They are cheap and do not use gas like moped and 3 wheels motorcycles which cost ten time the price of donkeys . But we can say that the way that donkeys are sold and killed massively,we have worry about the future. We have to worry if we want to show to our sons real donkeys instead of pictures or going to zoo. Then what will we say if they ask us why did nothing to stop donkeys massacres? Will we tell them that we witnesses their disappearing impotently? Will we tell them we wanted to do something but we did not have the means? Authorities and animal defense organisations must stand up and help donkeys. If they don’t want to classify donkeys as endangered animals in Burkina Faso for the coming years. For my part I consider that I started mine.