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Vol 67 No 6

Published 20th March 2026


Burkina Faso

Ali Konaté – dozo billionaire

He was already leader of the traditional Dioula/Sénoufo hunter community – the dozos – when Ali Konaté rose to national prominence. In February 2018, dressed in his hunter’s attire, Konaté, president of the Union nationale des dozos du Burkina (UNDB), declared that the self-appointed law-and-order forces known as koglwéogo were not welcome in western Burkina Faso.

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