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, the IMF said that despite a "challenging humanitarian and security" environment, the economy was expected to remain "robust" in 2025, and the regime had made "commendable progress" in raising domestic revenue, containing the public wage bill, and increasing spending on education, health and social protection.from 0.7% in 2023 to 4.2% in 2024, but the extreme poverty rate, which refers to people living on less than $2.15 [£1.61] a day, had fallen by almost two percentage points to 24.9% because of "robust growth" in the agriculture and services sectors.

Despite these reports from US-based financial institutions, relations with both France and America have been frosty.A recent example being the claim by the head of the US Africa Command, Gen Michael Langley, that Traoré was usingThis appeared to be a reference to the long-standing view of the US, and some of its African allies, that Russian forces were propping up Traoré in exchange for a stake in Burkina Faso's gold industry - undermining the military ruler's image as a leader who expelled French troops in 2023 to reclaim the country's sovereignty.

Gen Langley's comments, made in early April during a US Senate committee hearing, triggered an uproar among the captain's supporters, who felt their hero was being smeared.This was further inflamed when shortly afterwards, the Burkinabé junta said

, alleging the plotters were based in neighbouring Ivory Coast - where Gen Langley then made a visit.

Ivory Coast denied being involved in any plot, whileHe hopes that the skeleton will find a place in a museum soon. But he adds it will need to have mechanisms to control the temperature and humidity of the space to prevent the skeleton from decomposing.

Locals the BBC spoke to expressed similar sentiments and blamed "red tapeism" for the back-and-forth over the skeleton."We are proud of Vadnagar's ancient history but this treatment of a 1,000-year-old skeleton is deeply concerning. What is the point of building a museum if the most unique antiquity is left outside under a plastic roof?" Vadnagar resident Jesang Thakor said.

Another resident, Bethaji Thakor, said that he believed the skeleton could draw tourists from around the world to Vadnagar."Where else will you get to see something like this?"