Burkina Faso billionaire Inoussa Kanazoe acquires key gold mines as foreign firms are pushed out under Traore

Billionaires Africa | 28.05.2026 15:09
Inoussa Kanazoe, one of Burkina Faso's wealthiest businessmen, has emerged as a major beneficiary of the junta government's sweeping campaign to wrest control of the country's $7 billion gold sector away from foreign mining companies and into local hands.