Ibrahim Traoré’s gamble on gold is starting to yield returns for Burkina Faso’s military government, which is benefiting from a significant mining boom. The country recorded a record 94 tonnes of gold production in 2025, enhancing revenues and unlocking a $33.2 million disbursement from the IMF following a positive economic review. Despite ongoing security challenges, GDP growth reached an estimated 5% in 2025. The government’s stabilisation plan focuses on tightening mining revenue collection, controlling inflation, and managing borrowing levels. Furthermore, the IMF has approved an additional $124 million to support climate-resilient agriculture. However, the Fund warns that risks remain, necessitating stricter mining oversight and continued governance reforms to sustain this momentum.
—
Burkina Faso, Mining boom | Gold | Burkina Faso economy | GDP | Firstpost Africa | Alyson Le Grange | Africa | Global South | Geopolitics | Military Coup | Environment | Climate Change | Firstpost | News Live | World News | Latest News | Global News | International News | News | Trending News
#burkinafaso #economy #mining #gold #firstpostafrica #africa #alysonlegrange #globalsouth #militarycoup #firstpost #newslive #worldnews #latestnews #globalnews #news #internationalnews #trendingnews
Firstpost is an Indian news and media website. Get all the incisive opinions, in-depth analyses and other visual stories that matter to you and the world right here on this channel.
Subscribe to Firstpost channel and press the bell icon to get notified when we go live.
Follow Firstpost on Website:
Follow Firstpost on Instagram:
Follow Firstpost on Facebook:
Follow Firstpost on X:
Follow Firstpost on WhatsApp:
I urge all my burkinabe brothers to leave Europe and go back to Burkinabe, build and CLAIM your country until europeans go there and take control of the economy
without france
Look how country was poor because leaders was stealing but now traore is busking the country and building a better economy
Which IMF?
No more calling him junta
If white Europeans can't get African gold directly they try to get indirectly through loans
This is what happened when we Govern ourselves not European puppets like what we have all over Africa if we are left alone every country in Africa will be successful within the next 10 years left alone every country enough is successful
After they nationalized the mines, they were no longer being robbed by foreign mining corporations. All of a sudden, record mining.
It's The Selflessness & Genuine Patriotism With The Agenda Being The Betterment of The Whole Nation, Not Just A Leader & His Bootlicking Cronies Which Has Really Put Ibrahim Traore In The Spotlight & Seperates Him From All The Other African Leaders, The "Wannabe Kings" like The Leaders of Uganda & Cameroon For Example #TraoreAfricanLegend 👏🏿😊👍🏿💯
Traore is putting the so called clowns 🤡 of African leaders into shame.
The terrorist gangsters are looking for Bukina gold. Don't give them any.
DO NOT TAKE IMF MONEY, ITS A DEBT TRAP.
Where is the IMF support madam ??? Why fake propaganda please give some evidence if you have ….Don't know why African leaders borrow money when they can sell Gold …why are countries in African continent not developed yet , Is it their own leaders robbing them or the other countries robbing them , so terribly wrong happening with original born Africans .
Commentators never mention the Agricultural Revolution or new Justice System etc etc etcetc
Food food food production huge now
Ongoing security crises implemented by France!
They should have gone to those wicked people
Correct your English words then present .
Don't show this or else Trump.will take.over this country again 😢
😮🙏
If one country has a gold mine, why do bother to barrow from the corrupt greedy IMF who controls the Worlds Banks only? Never ever barrow from them is the best decision of one Leader who has more brainers than those Elected as Presidents of other Nations who put their country into debts Trap of barrowing Trillion Dollars.
Things are more complex than they appear.
BURKINA FASO REFUSED THE IMF, BURKINA FASO DON'T NEED IMF MONEY. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. Abomination.
Captain Ibrahim Traore president of Burkina faso is chicken 🐔 afraid of growing marijuana and hemp
Everyone young African loves Traore
All from getting the corrupt french authorities out of the place, a clear indication of just how much they stole every year just to flatten their own pockets. Smh murderous thieving wolves in sheep clothing, I hope traore bans them for life. Stay away or else it's well justified.
It’s hard for you to call him president
He’s Africa president ❤❤❤all we love him
Control the AI, control the masses?
South Africa needs to leaern from Burkina Faso, expropriate our land including our mines from white, and use our natural resources to create jobs industrialize our economy for the benefit of black people, rather than serving greedy Western interests. The useless ANC government doesn't have the balls, well done Burkina Faso keep rising higher and higher.
Today, truth finally found its voice.
FAKE NEWS
ANOTHER ISRAEL MOSSAD AND CIA CHANNEL. YALL WISH HE GAVE YOU THE TIME OF DAY. NEVER
You will shine forever for you Good work
That newscaster is terrible! Why her??!!! 😂😂👀
The West (USA and Europe) never left Africa, they just changed costumes. 1960 wasn't independence, it was a rebrand where colonial uniforms became business suits and direct rule became aid, NGOs, and partnerships. Same exploitation, different disguise. Africa is the richest continent with the poorest people because the system designed by the West is built to extract, not develop. We have sixty percent of the world's cobalt, vast gold, diamonds, and oil yet our people suffer while the West profits.
Humanitarian assistance is the new mask Western NGOs wear to control our policies, open our markets, and keep us dependent. They help us stay poor, so we keep needing them. The Congo fuels the West's electric future yet sits in darkness. Niger powers France's nuclear grid yet lacks reliable electricity. The West takes our resources, we keep the suffering, that is not coincidence, that is design.
Let me name step by step what the West failed to do in Africa after promising to help us. First, they failed to build industries, they only built extraction points to carry our resources away. Second, they failed to educate our people properly, they gave us just enough learning to serve their companies but not enough to think for ourselves. Third, they failed to develop our infrastructure, the railways they built only go from mines to ports, not connecting our people to each other. Fourth, they failed to stabilize our governments, they installed and removed leaders based on who would sign their deals, creating chaos they now call our problem. Fifth, they failed to transfer real technology, they kept the knowledge in their hands so we would always depend on them. Sixth, they failed to respect our sovereignty, they wrote our constitutions, designed our currencies, and controlled our banks from Paris and London. Seventh, they failed to add value to our resources, they take our raw gold, cocoa, and oil, process them in Europe, and sell them back to us ten times the price. Eighth, they failed to stop the looting, their corporations and African collaborators have bled this continent dry while they watched and profited.
Some African leaders still hand the West the keys to our own exploitation. Corrupt governments sign the deals, accept the aid, and let Western corporations continue stealing while the West calls these leaders stable partners and never films their failures. But when leaders like Ibrahim Traore try to reclaim resources from the West, suddenly the West cares about democracy and human rights. They only cry foul when they lose control.
China and Russia were never Africa's colonial masters; they are not the West. They are only helping to fix what the USA and Europe have failed to do in Africa for decades, infrastructure, development, and genuine partnership without exploitation. Stop making videos just praising African leaders, start exposing the structures that keep us down and the African hands that still enable Western exploitation.
Let me ask you something simple. If you have a helper in your home and you leave him in charge of your house and go on a journey, on returning back you see all your furniture and your food had been stolen by him, and your children are left without food or shelter, will you still keep that helper in your house? The West was that helper. They stole everything and left our children suffering. Africa will never ever bow again. It is enough
Again fake news!!! What a shame on you
if it is 30 mio usd that is fine. he is leveraging the value of gold to be able to refund this in a year. and The IMF hates that.
All eyes are now on Burkina Faso.
Who’s really behind the AI curtain?
Like it
I’m not even a fanboy, but this is interesting as hell.
Because Gold is in high demand. otherwise..worth nothing!
just mean jerusalem still want their slice
Nigeria when?