Burkina Faso

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May 17, 2023
Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism.
February 25, 2023
More than 15,000 people, including cinema celebrities from Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are expected in Ouagadougou for FESPACO.
October 2, 2022
Saturday’s violence has been condemned by the French Foreign Ministry, which denied any involvement in the events unfolding in the…
May 27, 2022
African leaders meet as challenges mount on the continent from extremism to climate change to military coups leaving millions in…
May 12, 2022
The continent saw 500 IS terrorist incidents in 2021, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,900 people, a senior…
March 17, 2022
The work of architect Diébédo Francis Kéré "feeds the imagination with an afro-futurist vision," according to his firm's website.
October 16, 2021
FESPACO kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West…
May 1, 2021
Most of the women come from Nigeria’s Edo state and work off debts in squalid conditions at or near small-scale…
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September 26, 2019
An interview with Jimmy Jean-Louis and Apolline Traore on their powerful new foreign film, 'Deserances' that premiered at Urbanworld FIlm…
December 16, 2011
OPINION - Fair trade may not be as fair as you think. In fact, some of what is passing as…
October 18, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The quest for the world's first malaria vaccine appears to have taken a big step: A study…