Hundreds of civilians in towns and villages across extremist-hit parts of Burkina Faso have signed up to protect their communities and combat jihadist groups, since a new law - ... Read more »
The UN refugee agency has strongly condemned an October 4 attack on a convoy transporting internally displaced people, that left 25 dead and one seriously injured. Burkina Faso has ... Read more »
Creation of the interim government and the naming of 25 ministers in Mali represent "yet another step in the road back to constitutional order", U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel J. ... Read more »
Did we live up to the commitment we made in 1999 that every one of us needs to consciously make peace and nonviolence a part of our daily existence? I think not, writes Nihal Saad, ... Read more »
On a mission to satisfy local demand for rice, the Mitiri Cooperative of Young Rice Producers are fighting for the eradication of hunger in Bagre, a rural community located in the ... Read more »
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is marking the decade-long Feed the Future campaign, which enables partner organisations to target the root causes of ... Read more »
According to new data from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than 535,500 children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition. Of them, some 156,500 children are ... Read more »
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 »
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