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BURKINA FASO - TRUNKS, PARCELS AND UNCOUNTED GOLD

By Rasmata Sawadogo · 4 parts · 11 h 49 min · English

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Burkina Faso, 1987 to 2026. Under Blaise Compaoré a landlocked country of farmers became one of Africa's largest gold producers, while United Nations panels traced weapons and diamonds through Ouagadougou and the journalist Norbert Zongo was killed investigating a death at the presidency. This book follows the money into a customs director's trunks, a hundred thousand irregular parcels, a gold mine's carbon fines settled for nine billion francs and a ministry account meant for people displaced by war, and asks why a state that documented its own corruption so thoroughly so rarely reached a verdict. Covers Blaise Compaoré and the presidential guard, François Compaoré and the Zongo case, Ousmane Guiro and the customs service, Alizéta Ouédraogo and SOCOGIB, and IAMGOLD Essakane and the charbon fin affair.

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  1. Part 01

    3:02:45

  2. Part 02

    2:58:32

  3. Part 03

    2:25:16

  4. Part 04

    3:22:02

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