Burkina Faso's Interim President, Ibrahim Traore, lays the foundation stone for the country's Armed Forces Industrial Complex.
The TEXFORCES-BF factory in the Burkinabe city of Bobo-Dioulasso will manufacture and market professional clothing for the military, paramilitary and civilian corps.
"It's a process of industrialization that we've set in motion," declared Ibrahim Traore at the ceremony.
"The goal is to process everything we produce," because "every year we spend tens of billions abroad to dress ourselves, the defense forces, the security forces, and so we have decided to process our cotton locally."