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Africa’s largest film festival kicks off in Burkina Faso

George Shafe 8 months ago

OUAGADOUGOU – Africa’s major movie pageant kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid each the COVID-19 pandemic and a expanding jihadi insurgency in the West African country that has killed countless numbers of folks and displaced extra than 1 million in current yrs.

Alex Moussa Sawadogo, head of the Pan-African Movie and Tv set Pageant of Ouagadougou said organizers preferred to go ahead with the celebration acknowledged by its French acronym, FESPACO in spite of the worries to exhibit Burkina Faso can even now “inspire creativeness through cinema.”

“This occasion will be a FESPACO of resistance simply because it is

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Angelina Jolie visits Burkina Faso as U.N. Special Envoy

George Shafe 1 year ago

GOUDOUBO – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to demonstrate solidarity with persons who go on to welcome the displaced, despite grappling with their personal insecurity, and stated the earth is not doing sufficient to aid.

“The humanitarian disaster in the Sahel seems to me to be completely neglected. It is handled as currently being of small geopolitical significance,” Jolie instructed the Involved Press. “There’s a bias in the way we imagine about which nations and which folks make any difference.”

Although Burkina Faso has been battling a 5-year Islamic insurgency connected to al-Qaida and the Islamic

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