Burkina Faso: the ALP adopts a law to better protect strategic companies against privatization
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Burkina Faso: Protecting strategic companies as a lever to strengthen economic sovereignty (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
On 19 October 2026, the Legislative Assembly adopted a law regulating strategic economic, commercial and industrial entities. The text aims to protect public assets, guide investment and support industrialisation.
Burkina: the Legislative Assembly bans the privatization of strategic state-owned companies (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The Legislative Assembly of the People has passed a law banning the full or partial privatization of strategic state-owned companies. The text also tightens oversight of certain decisions and introduces new protections for these entities.
Burkina Faso: Privatization of strategic state-owned companies now banned (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
A new law bans any total or partial privatization of state-owned companies or structures deemed strategic in Burkina Faso. The text also strengthens state control over these entities and was adopted by 70 votes to one abstention.
Burkina Faso: the ALP adopts a law to better protect strategic companies against privatization (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
The People’s Legislative Assembly has adopted a law defining economic, commercial and industrial entities deemed strategic. The text bans their total or partial privatization and strengthens the state’s powers over these structures.