At least 35 civilians have been reported killed and dozens more injured in Burkina Faso. The vehicle was traveling in an area where Islamist militants have escalated attacks in recent years. At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 were injured in Burkina Faso on Monday after the vehicle they were traveling in struck an […]
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Nearly one in 10 people in Burkina Faso have been displaced by conflict. Most worryingly, the rate of severe food insecurity has nearly doubled compared to last year, with over 600,000 people in emergency hunger levels during this lean season, warns 28 international aid organisations operating in the country. An urgent increase in funding for […]
“We got to Dédougou with nothing: no money, no food,” says Habi*. “Everything remained in Douroula, even our bicycles.” Habi is at a health centre supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the capital of the Boucle du Mouhoun region in western Burkina Faso. The town of Douroula, where she lived, some 20 kilometres from […]
Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, has apologised to the ex-leader’s family. “I ask the Burkinabe people for forgiveness for all the acts I may have committed during my tenure, and especially the family of my brother and friend […]
Remarks by the French ambassador in Burkina Faso, Luc Hollade has caused anger and controversy to such an extent, that certain civil society organisations and political players are demanding his departure. Reporting to senators in France on July 5th, 2022 Hollade said: “the absence of results is causing strong frustrations in the country and the […]
A plane carrying Blaiselanded at 2 p.m. at an airbase in Ouagadougou on July 7, 2022 and was airlifted to an unknown destination. A few hundred of his supporters were at the Ouagadougou airport to see their leader return to the country after almost 8 years in exile. “We are really happy. We are going […]
Over the last 10 years, the number of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes and become displaced in their own countries, has more than doubled. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the increase in internally displaced persons (IDPs) has been particularly stark, as Resident Coordinator Bruno Lemarquis, the […]
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers agreed to return to civilian rule by March 2024 and published a new electoral law. ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou told a news conference that the sanctions will be lifted […]
Burkina Faso’s army has given civilians two weeks to evacuate vast areas in northern and southeastern regions of the country in advance ofmilitary operations against rebel fighters. The military evacuation order follows a major attack by rebels on June 11 that left at least 100 civilians dead and displaced thousands more. The West African country’s […]
Burkina Faso staged a remarkable fightback from two goals down to defeat highly-fancied Cote d’Ivoire 4-2 at the WAFU B U17 Championship on Saturday. Two goals by Ousmane Camara helped the Young Stallions to complete the turnaround after going two goals down in the first half. Captain Farouk Ouattara scored an amazing goal to restore […]
Geneva — The U.N. refugee agency says thousands of survivors of a recent massacre in Burkina Faso are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The deadly attack by armed men on June 12 in the town of Seytenga sent nearly 16,000 people, mostly women and children, fleeing for their lives. The U.N. refugee agency reports […]
West African leaders meeting in Accra have decided to uphold sanctions against Mali, along with the suspension of Burkina Faso and Guinea from the bloc. The measures could be lifted if the military rulers in all three countries speed up plans for a return to civilian rule. Sunday’s comment came a day after the Economic […]
Khouribga — An agreement of partnership, cooperation and coordination between film clubs in Morocco and Burkina Faso was signed on the occasion of the 22nd edition of the International Festival of African Cinema (FICAK) held in Khouribga. The agreement was signed, on the Moroccan side, by Ahmed Masmoudi, Jilali Boujou and Iz-eddine Gourirane, members of […]
Perkoa — Executives at Canada-based Trevali Mining Corp. said the company was caught unawares by a torrential downpour during the dry season last month in Burkina Faso that left eight men trapped underground in its Perkoa zinc mine. Rescue efforts have continued since the flood on April 16, but there has been no communication with […]
The junta in power in Ouagadougou justified the 24 January coup by citing the inability of former president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s government to provide security in Burkina Faso. By making security its primary objective, the regime raised people’s hopes of a rapid return to peace and stability. Three months after the putsch, however, the […]
Premium Foods Limited, an agro-processing company at Ejisu-Kwaso in Ashanti, operating under government’s One-District-One Factory initiative, has begun the export of Super Cereal to Burkina Faso, under the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The Company, inaugurated by President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in June 2021, is supported by WFP through the Canadian government, to […]
A release prepared by Reporters sans Frontières to accompany its annual World Press Freedom Index for 2022: Press freedom has many facets in Africa, ranging from the abundance of media outlets in Senegal (73rd) and South Africa (35th), to the deafening silence of privately owned media in Eritrea (179th) and Djibouti (164th). Despite a wave […]
On April 6, 2022, a military tribunal in Burkina Faso found 11 men, including the former president, Blaise Compaoré, guilty of “attacks on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of a corpse.” This marked a historic moment for the West African nation. The trial which began in October 2021 was intended to uncover the […]