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Vol 65 No 15

Published 19th July 2024


Burkina Faso

A hunter in aviation

Burkina Faso’s national airline, Air Burkina, has struggled for more than a decade. But instead of saving West Africa’s oldest airline, the junta of Captain Ibrahim Traoré had other plans. In late 2023, Kangala Air Express appeared out of nowhere and was touted as the company to serve the three Sahelian states that are in a confederation, the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES).

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