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Article: Locked in, locked out. (Countryfile: Mali/Burkina Faso).
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- African Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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The on-going conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has also severely crippled the economies of neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso which, lacking coastlines, cannot export or import. Neil Ford looks at the implications of being landlocked in Africa's volatile areas.
Thousands of nationals of Burkina Faso and Mali living in Cote d'Ivoire have been caught up in the fighting in that country and trade from the two Sahelian states has been interrupted by the upheaval.
The ongoing conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has highlighted the vulnerability of Africa's landlocked states. Trade in West Africa has traditionally flowed north to south, or least along river valleys, and so Mali ...