AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoWomen in Science: Burkina Faso has suspended beauty pageants while it drafts new rules and launched HAKILI Mousso, a science contest for 84 young women. Winners received scholarships, and President Ibrahim Traoré urged them to pursue science careers. Football: Hosts Burkina Faso drew 0-0 with Ghana in Ouagadougou. Ghana finished top of Group A unbeaten and advanced to the WAFU U17 semi-finals. Sahel Security: Fighting between rival JNIM and Islamic State factions has intensified in Burkina Faso’s Oudalan province. Islamic State claimed more than 400 JNIM fighters were killed; the figure has not been independently confirmed. U.S. Deportations: Burkina Faso rejected a U.S. request to accept deportees who are not Burkinabè citizens. Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré called the proposal “indecent” and said the country would not be a destination for forced transfers. Economic Priorities: At IMF–World Bank meetings, Finance Minister Aboubacar Nacanabo urged African countries to move beyond coping with shocks and focus on domestic resource mobilisation, diversification and stronger local value chains.
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