Women work together to filter the oil extracted from the shea nut, which will be used to make Karite butter in Siby on March 21, 2023. – Shea, a tree indigenous to Africa, and whose fruit is collected almost entirely by women, is becoming an instrument of economic development in some of the poorest countries in the world.
According to the Global Shea Alliance, 16 million Africans living in the region of Senegal to South Sudan live or survive on its harvest — mainly in rural areas.
Mali is one of the world’s leading producers along with Nigeria and Burkina Faso. (Photo by OUSMANE MAKAVELI / AFP)