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Burkina Faso

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:22:52 GMT
Biden Administration Announces Donation of 25 Million Covid-19 Vaccines to Africa
[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- The White House is announcing today that the Biden administration will donate approximately 25 million COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed in Africa. Planned to be made in the next few days are shipments of the Johnson ...

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:58:00 GMT
EBID Board Approves €61 526 000 for Projects in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire
[New Dawn] The 74th session of the Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development or EBID was held via videoconference on July 1, 2021, to review the activities of the Bank for the second quarter of 2021 and to consider key publ...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:13:13 GMT
Rapper-Turned-Farmer Rhymes On Climate Change
[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Africa's Sahel region is seeing the worst effects of climate warming anywhere on the planet, according to the United Nations.

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 05:26:17 GMT
Government-Backed Militias Accused of Abuses
[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- The attack in Burkina Faso last month that killed 160 civilians was in retaliation for activity by pro-government civilian militias in the area, according to Human Rights Watch.

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:34:11 GMT
Sahel - in Search for New Strategies?
[Centre 4s] Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the most exposed countries of the G5 Sahel to terrorism, have been facing repeated attacks since this year beginning. It is in this worrying context that the French president announced on 10 June, the "end of...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 05:06:32 GMT
Burkina Faso's President Sacks Defense Minister
[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Burkina Faso's President Roch Kabore has dismissed the country's defense minister in the wake of widespread protests Saturday against insecurity.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:22:43 GMT
Personal Data - Morocco, Burkina Faso Strengthen Their Cooperation
[MAP] Rabat -- The National Commission for the Supervision of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) and the Commission of Informatics and Liberties (CIL) of Burkina Faso signed, on Monday in Rabat, a cooperation protocol on the establishment of a bilateral...

Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:53:44 GMT
Arbitrary Detention of IDPs Is Focus During Angelina Jolie's Burkina Faso Visit
[VOA] Deep in Burkina Faso's war-torn Sahel province lies the Goudoubo refugee camp. It was rebuilt after Islamist militants burned much of it to the ground last year.

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:45:57 GMT
UNICEF Provides Emergency Assistance After Solhan Attack
[Unicef] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Following armed attacks on the village of Solhan in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, UNICEF has deployed emergency assistance in support of the Government and local authorities in the Sebba area, a few kilometre...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:41:28 GMT
'Priest and the Faithful Perhaps Kidnapped to Be Used As Human Shields'
[Agenzia Fides] Bamako -- "Perhaps the priest and the faithful who accompanied him were kidnapped, at least initially, to serve as human shields by an armed group chased by the army and fleeing towards the border with Burkina Faso", say to Fides Chur...

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:42:32 GMT
Angelina Jolie Marks World Refugee Day With Refugees in Burkina Faso
[UNHCR] The Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie, is in Burkina Faso for World Refugee Day to bring attention to the fastest growing emergency in the world today. Displacement doubled in the last year alone.

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:42:00 GMT
Remarks By UNHCR Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie, On World Refugee Day
[UNHCR] Goudoubo Camp, Burkina Faso -- I'm humbled to be in Burkina Faso, and by the extraordinary grace of the people I have met here.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:27:17 GMT
Ouagadougou Municipality Names Street in Honor of Pope Benedict XVI
[CISA] Ouagadougou -- The apostolic nuncio to Burkina Faso and Niger, Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty has acknowledged the mayor and the municipality of Ouagadougou for honoring Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI with a street.

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:38:06 GMT
Central Sahel - Ground Zero in Tackling Climate Change Through Education
[IPS] New York -- The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world's poorest countries. Nowhere is this more visible than in Africa's Central Sahel region, where increasing temperature, floods, droughts and other ...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:30:18 GMT
When Water Scarcity Meets Conflict
[ICRC] Burkina Faso has been experiencing a humanitarian crisis since armed conflict broke out in 2016. As in the rest of the Sahel region, a prolonged drought has only made things worse.



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