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WittyCry4374 Apr 2, 2026 +403

india’s been a solid partner to Burkina Faso for a while now, doing everything from setting up solar pumps for farmers and offering uni scholarships to sending over essential meds during the pandemic.

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Abhir-86 Apr 2, 2026 +61

I had never heard of this country, so I googled it. Looks beautiful.

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Capt_morgan72 Apr 2, 2026 +18

8 pretty recent coups . Kinda surprising more ppl have never heard of it.

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hamonabone Apr 3, 2026 +3

I knew someone attending university in the US from Burkino Faso on an education visa. It was 2008, and he showed me a 1,200 usd smartphone he had just bought. Although I was a gamer at that time and built my own rig I had no idea phones could ever reach that price. I asked him to tell me about Burkino Faso, and the one thing he said was kids have fun using homemade slingshots to kill lizards. He made it sound like it was a big deal.

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whoisyourwormguy_ Apr 2, 2026 +30

It it one of the most forgotten on the sporcle countries of the world quiz. It also has coups often

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Academic-Lime4309 Apr 3, 2026 +3

It is the country with the largest population out there mate /s

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OkFix4074 Apr 2, 2026 +258

India understands hunger and value of timely help !

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goingfullretard-orig Apr 2, 2026 +97

Nice to see Rice guys don't always finish last.

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sandm4n_RS Apr 2, 2026 +55

That is a solid Grain of truth right there.

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WhatTheActualDuck1 Apr 2, 2026 +22

You fried

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JEEvanNEETi Apr 2, 2026 +15

Your words hold a lot of wheat

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UncleBored Apr 2, 2026 +13

Let's hope more countries e-millet this action.

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Matthew94 Apr 2, 2026 -31

> space around punctuation Yet another Indian nationalist praising their country.

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Exceptionaltomato Apr 2, 2026 +428

A nice change of pace to see something good happening amidst all the chaos

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RisingRusherff Apr 2, 2026 +120

There are many good things happening but the bad things are Outnumbering them

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prathneo1 Apr 2, 2026 +44

By a lot. This is a really good YT channel to follow if you want to know all the good news around the world. [Link](https://m.youtube.com/@Good__News/)

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SuspiciousNovel1358 Apr 2, 2026 +11

lol wtf I never knew only goodnews channels were a thing.

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trozaan Apr 2, 2026 +6

It is on tv too

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ConsiderationSlow621 Apr 2, 2026 +4

I think it is the fault of people turning away from legacy media and instead getting more news from social media. The algorithms are designed to bait you into interacting with posts. Whereas in legacy media, even though most of those channels are trp hungry, they put up some 'feel good' story on the screen so you subconsciously see something nice even if there are 500 sirens going on in the channel.

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mouarg Apr 2, 2026 +71

India always helping out others good lad! They still get so much bad press.

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PrestigiousZombie531 Apr 3, 2026 +2

and a fuckton of racism online every f****** where

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kvothe5688 Apr 2, 2026 +86

India almost always sends humanitarian aid to any nation facing crisis.

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gradient- Apr 2, 2026 +53

I didnt know it works for countries too

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Uncertn_Laaife Apr 2, 2026 +13

Very good!

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Foreign_Cable_9530 Apr 2, 2026 +115

I’ve never even heard of this country, I thought that was someone’s name who just received a lifetime of rice. What’s going on in Burkina Faso?

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ThePlanck Apr 2, 2026 +118

Off the top of my head, military dictatorship + ISIS/ISIS adjacent insurgency

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DeadAhead7 Apr 2, 2026 +16

Military junta took power, kicked France's soldiers out, is now threatened by JNIM. Is exchanging ressources for Russian military assistance. Not working out good. Same in Mali.

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FormalMango Apr 2, 2026 +44

FESPACO - the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. (The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou.) I went to the festival with work in 2003, had one of the best weeks of my life there. It’s a beautiful country, and the people of Ouga partied hard. Unfortunately… Burkina Faso is now in the hands of the junta and under constant attack from al-Quaeda and ISIL.

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Free-Way-9220 Apr 2, 2026 +32

The current military dictator is not a great guy. At all

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Infinite_throwaway_1 Apr 2, 2026 +1

But is he our not great guy or Russia/China's not great guy?

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DailyUniverseWriter Apr 2, 2026 +2

Russia/china

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green_left_hand Apr 2, 2026 +6

["Burkino Faso? Disputed zone? Who called all these weird places?"](https://youtu.be/M2nTSUfTJ2M?si=YcI1CCIyaOzd5feo)

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TheSeptimiusSeverus Apr 2, 2026 +11

you've never heard of u/BurkiniFatso ?

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BurkiniFatso Apr 2, 2026 +38

You've heard of me?!

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TheSeptimiusSeverus Apr 2, 2026 +31

Yea. Apparently India is sending you a shit ton of rice. Enjoy your biryani.

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BurkiniFatso Apr 2, 2026 +31

I love biryani! Also this is surreal because I'm Pakistani

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TheSeptimiusSeverus Apr 2, 2026 +20

I knew South Asians will eventually work things out!

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goingfullretard-orig Apr 2, 2026 +5

Used to be "Upper Volta"

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StrategicCarry Apr 2, 2026 +2

Here's a really good YouTube video that just came out that explains everything: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59CjHILijHw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59CjHILijHw)

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EdoOkati Apr 2, 2026 +27

Good to see

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PlateLocal938 Apr 2, 2026 +19

India is always a good guy in any event!

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me_and_You7 Apr 2, 2026 +25

Oh shit IB the dictator of Burkina Faso is not going to like this! All his minions online will deny it. For them Burkina Faso is the most developed country in Africa apparently

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Efficient_Basis_2139 Apr 2, 2026 +9

Burkina Faso? The Disputed Zone? Who called all these crazy places?!

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Intruder313 Apr 2, 2026 +6

Metric tonnes*

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Obvious_Investment_4 Apr 2, 2026 +6

A country ranked 102 in Global Hunger Index (GHI), is sending food aid to another country, which is better ranked at 98. Isn’t it diabolical? It’s really admirable to see one country stepping up to help another in a time of need

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Yorker_length Apr 2, 2026 +32

I get what you mean but rice is one thing india has plenty of. So plenty that every year tonnes of rice is going to rats and wastage while in the government storages. Govt does provide free rice of 5kgs to 800 million people every month. Still there's lot more in the storage. Better to give it as an aid than let it rot

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PermitCivil Apr 2, 2026 +24

GHI isnt measuring "starvation" alone, its also measuring nutrition. for india that means that we get that ranking because we don't get proper nutrition (lack of protein, excess of carbs); not that people are going hungry.

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kaladin_stormchest Apr 3, 2026 +1

That makes sense. Food is heavily subsidized for those that need it here, i don't think "starvation" is a major problem anymore

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Equivalent-Eye-2782 Apr 3, 2026 +8

Who even believes those western indices

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SamsonFox2 Apr 2, 2026 -30

Before people start circlejerking, that's a whole lot of 433,000 US dollars at current market prices.

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i_just_farted123 Apr 3, 2026 +2

Yeah, you should send the people there a million dollars. I'm sure they will be happy to eat the money.

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LostInAPortal Apr 2, 2026 -280

A country that can barely feed its own people, sends food to another. India’s priorities are messed up

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lazymomo5 Apr 2, 2026 +172

India has enough reseves of foodgrains to feed it's people for months, and more. You'll be surprised that the west was requesting India to release of buffer stocks just a couple years ago to ease global food prices amidst Russia Ukraine war.

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Big_Huckleberry_6851 Apr 2, 2026 +76

Still living in 1980s.

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LostInAPortal Apr 2, 2026 -108

That would be India

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Big_Huckleberry_6851 Apr 2, 2026 +58

sure buddy

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Matthew94 Apr 2, 2026 -17

You’re right, people had sanitation in the 1980s.

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Caraxes_thebloodwyrm Apr 2, 2026 +109

I pity the ignorance

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Future_Definition_55 Apr 2, 2026 +106

Are you getting your news from 1960s? What is this fan fiction?

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No_Tree_8144 Apr 2, 2026 +66

your take is off by like a decade or so my guy. india doesn't really have an issue with feeding its people anymore. and hasn't for a while. the biggest issue at this point is nutrition because theres a lack of protein in the diet. and that's mostly cuz indians eat carb heavy food. sending rice is hardly a concern for india. they have more than enough. matter of fact 800 million indians get about 5kg of free rice/wheat every month for *free*

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Matthew94 Apr 2, 2026 -19

> matter of fact 800 million indians get about 5kg of free rice/wheat every month for free It’s not free when it’s the government dumping overproduction due to pumping public money (subsidies) into the industry. You’re still paying for it. Some day you guys will understand how markets work. Until then you’ll keep trailing.

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No_Tree_8144 Apr 3, 2026 +12

it's not rlly dumping overproduction. a lot of indians are just so poor that not having to spend money on things like rice/wheat actually goes a really really reallyyy long way. instead of spending that money on rice, they can often times save up for their children's education, or improve their quality of life in a certain way that simply has far more ROI in the long run. it's literally one of the reasons how india was able to eliminate "extreme" poverty or reduce it drastically over the past decade+. being able to spend money towards other things stimulates the economy far more than spending it on basic survival such as food. the next step has been to reduce malnutrition. currently in india they track *half* of all the 0-6 year olds in the country. they track how the kid is growing on a month to month basis and give directives on if the child is falling behind in terms of food wasting, food stunting, or underweight for their age. it'll take at least another decade for these things to show major changes since it's entirely structural. I can guarantee you the people involved in this are significantly more qualified than a Listnookor like u lmao

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HumanWithResources Apr 3, 2026

Which is it? Cannot feed its own population or overproduction?

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AshinWirathu Apr 2, 2026 +41

Sending food to a place that just had a drought is not messed up priorities but westerners will never understand.

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omgitzvg Apr 2, 2026 +47

What can one expect from 11 month old acct.

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MilkConsistent3716 Apr 2, 2026 +46

Yeah a country which gives 5kg of food grains per person to around 800 million people free is barely feeding it's own people right right

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wo_kya_hobe Apr 2, 2026 +17

>A country that can barely feed its own people You can feed nearly 260 million people only with the grains that the f****** rodents manages to eat here. In other words we can feed an entire country with only our wasted grains and not even notice it(well maybe the rodents will).

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LostInAPortal Apr 2, 2026 -27

Stating that your country wastes grains that could feed 260M people isn’t worth bragging about. All it does is highlight how inefficient the storage pipeline is

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wo_kya_hobe Apr 3, 2026 +4

Please share the "zero waste" techniques with us o great one. It's insanely small amount of our total grain yield. Some fractional amount isn't the to testament to our inefficiency that you think it is. It highlights we can feed almost any country with the rounding errors.

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LostInAPortal Apr 3, 2026

> we can feed almost any country with the rounding errors Yeah, right. Any country except your own

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wo_kya_hobe Apr 3, 2026 +1

Being intentionally thick are we?

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No_Tree_8144 Apr 2, 2026 +41

the biggest issue with india isnt food production. india produces more than enough food. theres a couple reasons for malnutrition and they're more structural so it'll take longer to fix. 1) like you said poverty plays a huge role. ppl can afford wheat and rice but stuff like eggs, or meat consistently is a lot harder. 2) the hunger issue was solved relatively recently. a lot of mothers in india didn't grow up with enough food and dont eat enough nutritious food while pregnant which leads to low birth weight for a child which starts off a cycle of malnutrition. 3) sanitation. again until recently india had a lot of sanitation issues which meant children got sick a lot more and made the absorption of nutrients drop from whatever low level it was alr at. 4) diet. indian cuisine in general is very carb heavy. and not protein heavy. so this leads to nutrition issues even for kids that aren't growing up in abject poverty. a lot of these issues are structural that take *decades* to fix. for example fixing the overall starving and sanitation (still got some ways to go for this one) issues took over a decade. the other stuff like poverty and diet education is gonna take another 10+ years maybe.

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jackathigh Apr 2, 2026 +34

Because that person is ignorant and racist a******. Malnutrition is a difficult and complex problem, especially for large countries. Every country in the world faces it. https://www.worldhunger.org/recent-news-about-death-from-malnutrition-in-the-united-states/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/millions-go-hungry-in-wealthy-canada-and-some-die-young-as-a-result-idUSKBN1ZJ0JD/

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Matthew94 Apr 2, 2026 -3

Malnutrition in the west is due to choice. It is not the same as with India.

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baithammer Apr 2, 2026 +5

No, economic realities determine malnutrition in the majority of cases in the west, as food choices are often curtailed by costs.

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