Under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim TraorĂŠ, Burkina Faso has launched a massive, state-funded infrastructure campaign to build a 332-kilometre, four-lane (sometimes reported as eight-lane) highway connecting the capital, Ouagadougou, to the commercial hub, Boo-Dioulasso.
The project, part of the Faso MĂŞbo initiative, is designed to reduce dependence on foreign aid and foreign contractors by using local engineers, soldiers, and newly purchased heavy machinery.
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A green belt circling the capital of Burkina Faso is preparing the country for the climate crisis
As far as the eye can see is a hodge-podge of trees, vegetable plots and water tanks. Up close it may look like a gigantic allotment, but this unusual project actually stretches for 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres), a green belt that now completely rings the city of Ouagadougou.
The green belt began life many years ago in the 1970s, with the aim of building a protective wall against the encroaching desert that lies beyond the greenery, just a few steps away. In Burkina Faso, one-third of the territory â about 9 million hectares of productive land â is degraded, with an estimated average degradation rate of 360,000 hectares per year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). âBurkina Faso is not a climatically favoured country, but the drought of the 1980s exacerbated the problem, leading to significant population movements toward less degraded areas,â explains Sidnoma Abdoul Aziz TraorĂŠ, an environmental economist and expert in land degradation at the Centre Universitaire de ZiniarĂŠ (CUZ). But the situation, he says, is not irreversible.
The initial goal of the green belt was to reforest 2,100 hectares at an annual rate of 100 hectares, and by 1986, the area where trees had been planted was 1,032 hectares. The project stuttered a little in later years, despite reaching 2,000 hectares. But new impetus has recently been given to the project, which seeks, beyond holding back the desert, to combat heat and promote urban agriculture to help feed a city that has doubled its population in just 14 years, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD). The deadly heatwave that hit the country last year, with the temperature in Burkina Faso exceeding 42.3C (108F) for three consecutive days, only hammered home the urgency of what is now a vital project for the city.
âThe Sahel responds more quickly to climate change, and we are less prepared,â explains climatologist Kiswendsida Guigma at the Climate Centre of the Red Cross Federation in the Burkinabè capital. âWhen we analyse the situation on a large scale, we realise that the climate phenomenon has contributed to increasing heat. As a result, there are new initiatives like planting trees. People have realised that we need to cool the city, although we havenât managed to do it on the necessary scale.â
âOne of the objectives of the green belt is to lower the cityâs temperature; thatâs why weâre also planting trees,â says Moumini Sawadogo of the BurkinabĂŠ Red Cross, which financed a two-hectare garden as part of the belt, including the construction of two water wells and training in agroecology. Research has shown that âbotanical gardens are the green spaces with the greatest capacity to lower city temperaturesâ, and that sites such as the Chelsea Physic Garden and Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, or the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, reduced air temperatures during heatwaves in the city streets around them by an average of 5C.
The worldâs most ignored displacement crisis: Burkina Faso â in pictures
For the second year in a row, the Norwegian Refugee Council named Burkina Faso the worldâs most neglected displacement crisis in 2023 as a jihadist insurgency, the military regimeâs brutal response, Russian mercenaries and ethnic-based militias wreak havoc on hundreds of thousands of civilians. The photographer Emre Ăaylak has documented the lives of those affected by the crisis living at camps near the capital, Ouagadougou
Photographer: Emre Ăaylak
A mural in Ouagadougou depicting TraorĂŠ and Russiaâs president, Vladimir Putin. In June, Russia announced it would send more arms and instructors to aid Burkina Fasoâs defence capabilities and combat terrorism.