It is the latest overture from an isolated European power seeking to deepen ties with West Africa.
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    So severe is Burkina Faso’s security crisis that some citizens welcomed the military coups two years ago, and hoped for an end to the violence and upheaval.

    It was during a summit in St Petersburg last year that President Vladimir Putin promised to send Burkina Faso a gift of thousands of tonnes of wheat.

    Speaking at a ceremony on Friday, Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré said the wheat consignment from Russia would help to push his nation towards “developing our own production capacity in order to halt once and for all dependence on food from abroad”.

    Nandy Some Diallo, Burkina Faso’s minister for solidarity and humanitarian action, said the government was “delighted” and called the grain delivery a “priceless gift” that would benefit people who were internally displaced and vulnerable.

    Last summer, Burkina Faso signed a deal with Russia in July for the construction of a nuclear power plant to increase its energy supply.

    Burkina Faso, which is rich in gold and other minerals, has denied reports it paid Russian mercenary fighters by giving them rights to mines in the country.

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