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Botswana’s president praises Traoré’s speed – and says his own system wastes years
President Duma Boko has praised Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré for how fast a decision becomes law. In the same breath, he said Botswana can lose two to four years on tenders, evaluations and complaints before anything gets done. The comments
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Reason is simple: Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s government took a bank the two countries used to own together. The bank is Banque Commerciale du Burkina, often called BCB. For years it was split 50–50 half Libya, half Burkina Faso. The partnership started in the