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In the middle of the African Sahel, Captain Ibrahim Traoré is turning 100,000 hectares of “dead” desert into a massive watermelon belt. From the air, it looks like a miracle: endless green vines and shiny melons where there used to be only dust and thorn.

On paper, it’s simple: jobs, fruit, export dollars, and hope. But every one of those watermelons is more than 90% water. In a country where wells once ran dry and cattle died on their feet, that raises a harder question:

Is Burkina Faso finally feeding its own people with its hidden water – or quietly pumping that water into green shells and shipping its future out of Africa?

In this video, we unpack the Green Mirage:

How Traoré’s government mapped “lost” land and turned it into a 100,000-hectare watermelon belt

Who is financing the wells, the drip irrigation, the solar pumps, and the cold chain

Why foreign seed companies, logistics firms, and supermarket buyers love Sahel watermelons

What leaked technical reports say about falling groundwater levels, seed dependency, and export pressure

How the project is changing daily life for farmers, herders, and women running small juice and fruit businesses

And what it means when a dry, landlocked nation starts exporting millions of tons of “virtual water” as fruit

Supporters call it sovereignty in action: using global demand to build roads, clinics, skills, and real independence. Critics warn it’s a new kind of dependency, where farmers can’t plant without imported hybrid seeds, and in a bad year contracts might be protected before communities.

If you care about:

Who really controls African land and water,

How “green investment” can either build or break national sovereignty,

And how your cheap winter fruit might be drinking someone else’s future,

…this is a story you cannot afford to ignore.

Stay till the end as we connect this desert watermelon belt to a bigger shift underway in Africa—
a continent that is starting to say: we will feed you, but on our terms.

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