Word: burkina
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...brand is also dedicated to fair trade and eco-conscious business practices, like helping rose farmers in Turkey convert to biodynamic agriculture and teaching women in Burkina Faso how to turn shea nuts into butter so they can earn money to send their children to school...
...with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...arrived in Monrovia in the middle of the night aboard a creaky Fokker civilian plane flown by Burkina Faso air force pilots. Also aboard were four military advisers to Taylor's forces from Burkina Faso and two other journalists. When we touched down at Robertsfield, the national airport, the plane's window shades were pulled down by the crew, and the airport lights were doused as soon as the aircraft's engines were switched...
...really worthwhile?a lot of people said so?even people who are not environmentalists." That's because the films, although addressing issues as apparently lacking in screen appeal as recycling and corporate ethics, are often gripping dramas. Movies slated for screening include Safi, La Petite M?re, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumi?re by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open...
...Movies slated for screening include Safi, La Petite Mère, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...