🇧🇫Burkina Faso has passed a new law essentially banning the privatisation of all strategic state owned assets: Meeting in plenary session on Monday, October 19, 2026, the members of the People's Legislative Assembly (PLA) adopted the draft law defining and determining strategic economic, commercial, and industrial entities. This text prohibits the total or partial privatization of strategic state-owned enterprises and strengthens the state's prerogatives regarding control and equity participation in entities deemed strategic. The provisions of this law prohibit any privatization, total or partial, of a company or structure of a strategic nature belonging to the State. According to the Minister of Industry, Serge Poda, who presented the bill to the National Assembly, the text defines several criteria for determining whether a company, entity, or sector is strategic. These criteria include those related to national sovereignty and state security in the face of both internal and external threats. The Minister also emphasized the importance of these entities' impact on the country's social and economic stability.