Armed violence in Burkina Faso has internally displaced a record one million people in the country over the past year and a half, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and crop ... Read more »
A new report Human by Rights Watch says graves containing at least 180 men have been found over the past seven months around the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo, The report ... Read more »
The combination of rife insecurity, food insecurity and more than 7.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance has left the Sahel a region in crisis, with the global ... Read more »
Education has been disrupted by the violence perpetrated by armed Islamist groups in Burkina Faso - and, in response, by self-defense militias and government security forces - ... Read more »
The Sahel Director at Human Rights Watch, Corinne Dufka, has warned that "the Burkinabé security forces alleged execution of 31 men, in a brutal mockery of a ... Read more »
Human Rights Watch has said that security forces allegedly executed 31 detainees on April 9, 2020 in the northern town of Djibo. The men were apparently killed just hours after ... Read more »
Passed by parliament in January 2020, Burkina Faso's new "Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland" law is a response to a spike in violence that has forced more than 750,000 ... Read more »
With violence wreaking havoc across the country, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, says that his government is ready to hold talks with the main militant leaders in the ... Read more »
The "terrible reality" of the disastrous crisis in the Sahel results from the interlinking of multiple conflicts, according to Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, a veteran retired United ... Read more »
Officials say gunmen killed 24 people, including a pastor, and wounded at least 18 near a Protestant church in the village of Pansi in Burkina Faso's northern Yagha province,. Read more »
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