Burkina Faso: WHO Scales Up Activities in Response to Worsening Humanitarian Situation

WHO

Brazzaville, 15 July 2019 - The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up operations in Burkina Faso in response to a growing humanitarian crisis, which has seen over 200,000… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Parliament Revises Legal Code to Criminalise Reporting On Terrorism

CPJ

Burkina Faso authorities should prevent the enactment of revisions of the penal code that criminalize false news and reporting on terrorism or security operations, and ensure laws… Read more »

Africa: Delegations from Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire visit Burkina Faso on sanitation mission [press release]

Speak Up Africa

17 June 2019, SENEGAL – Delegations from Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire have visited the Bobo-Dioulasso sanitation facility in Burkina Faso to share learnings to improve… Read more »

Burkina Faso/Nigeria: AFCON - Put Vows to Use Burkina Faso Experience On Eagles

Vanguard

Guinea coach, Paul Put said his experience with Burkina Faso in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations will come into play when they face Nigeria's Super Eagles in the 2019 AFCON group B… Read more »

Africa: Violence Against Christians On the Rise in Africa

Deutsche Welle

The African continent is seeing an increasing number of violent attacks on Christians. Church representatives are particularly at risk of being targeted ― as are imams. Read more »

Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso's Atrocities in the Name of Security Will Help Terrorists' Ranks [press release]

HRW

Burkina Faso is in the grips of a dangerous threat from armed Islamist fighters who are murdering civilians and threatening to destabilize other West African countries. But the… Read more »

Africa: Rethinking Strategy to Stop the Spread of Terrorism [analysis]

ISS

The terror threat across Africa is as strong as ever. Attacks are occurring not just in the older centres of activity such as Somalia, northern Nigeria and northern Mali, but in… Read more »