"The current Russian arms transfers to Africa should not be interpreted the same way as they occurred under the Soviet Union," said David Shinn, former US ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.
The family moved house every two years, mainly through the French colonies that would become Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Djibouti.
I was in Mali recently where I met a woman, Maimouna Coulibaly, who several years ago left her job in the United States and returned to her home country to start a seed company called Faso Kaba.
Burkina Faso and Niger have agreed to exchange 18 towns in order to settle a long-running border dispute and end years of litigation.
Only four African countries – Burkina Faso, Egypt, Sudan and South Africa – have fully commercialised GM crops.
Project manager Maria Magdelena Ludwig is overseeing all the performances from theatres in Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, India, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK.
One of the world's poorest countries, Burkina Faso is also one of the world's most cinephile countries.
That ruling ordered the exchange of swaths of territory between the two countries, with 786 sq km (303 sq miles) handed to Burkina Faso and 277 sq km (107 sq miles) to Niger.
In Burkina Faso, farmers need around 100,000 tons of certified seed annually, but seed availability is only 16,000 tons.
Burkina Faso is to gain 14 towns and Niger will receive four between now and the end of next year, when the boundary drawing is complete, the permanent secretary of the Burkina Faso national border commission, Joséphine Kouara Apiou/Kaboré, announced this week.
Niger and Burkina Faso, which were French colonies prior to independence in 1960, share a frontier of roughly 620 miles (998km), about a third of which has been mapped out on the ground.
