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Airtel launches 3G in Burkina Faso
+ technology, enabling customers to benefit from new services such as videocalling, TV and high speed internet. According to Agence Ecofin, network coverage is currently available in the cities of Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Koudougou, Ouahigouya, Banfora and Ziniare. Comment?
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"They force him to rape his daughter": Saran Keita...
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... She was one of four female mediators who took part in peace negotiations from 15-17 April 2012 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Saran also recently spoke in April 2013 at the UN Security Council's Open Debate on conflict-related sexual violence in New ... Comment?
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Mercato: The Burkinabe Cheik Coulibaly being tested in Creteil
The Burkina Faso international is currently conducting a test a potential recruitment. Comment?
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Opposition in Burkina Faso vow to fight Senate law
Opposition parties walked out of a meeting in parliament this week in protest over the creation of a Senate. Comment?
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Talks to resume with Mali government, Tuaregs
Talks will resume soon between the Malian government and an ethnic Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in the country's north, Burkina Faso's foreign minister said Monday. Comment?
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Opposition in Burkina Faso vow to fight creation of a Senate
Opposition parties walked out of a meeting in parliament this week in protest over the creation of a Senate. Comment?
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Tackling Crime Takes on Import As Urban Populations Rise
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... Mayors and representatives of 18 municipalities around the world from Cape Town to Bangkok, from Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) to Seoul, discussed the biggest challenges they encountered and the best measures to take to address them. Martin Xaba, head ... Comment?
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Talks to resume with Mali, Tuaregs
Ouagadougou - The foreign affairs minister of Burkina Faso says talks will soon resume with a Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in northern Mali. Comment?
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Finding local solutions in a regional food crisis
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... malnutrition with complications. Over the last two years, this referral hospital in the hot and dry north of Burkina Faso has seen a steady flow of such cases, as a large-scale nutrition crisis across nine countries of the Sahel region has left more ... Comment?
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Making WASH work in Burkina Faso's cities
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Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. Comment?
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... neighboring countries. Last Fall, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and I traveled to Damba refugee camp in Burkina Faso, just 50 kilometers from the Mali border. Part of our mission was to draw attention to the crisis, so we appeared all over ... Comment?
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Nations pledge billions to rebuild Mali
... Islamist militants marched on Bamako this year, prompting a French military intervention. Photo: Yves Logghe Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore waves to the media upon arrival for the Donor Conference for Development in Mali, in Brussels, ... Comment?
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APNewsbreak: UK to pledge $195 million to Sahel
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... Dioncounda Traore upon his arrival at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday May 14, 2013. Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore waves to the media upon arrival for the Donor Conference for Development in Mali, in Brussels, ... Comment?
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Brief encounter in a Ouaga street
I will try another B&W picture from Burkina Faso in West Africa in 1982. These are children I met by chance somewhere in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, which in those days was known as Upper Volta . Comment?
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2014 World Cup playoffs: the Stallions in a friendly match against the Desert Foxes
Second in Group E of the qualifying in Africa for the Brazilian World Cup at six lengths from the Red Devils of Congo, the Stallions of Burkina Faso have stopped timing for the next days. Comment?
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This is from a small village called Tangora near the town of Banfora in southwestern Burkina Faso. Comment?
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TrueGold gets a cash boost from Teck
... in 2012 - a deep treasury to pursue exploration and development activities across a promising gold portfolio in Burkina Faso. According to Executive Chairman Mark O'Dea the relationship with Teck has deep roots that reach back to a joint-venture ... Comment?
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"UrbanFoodPlus" - A contribution towards food security in West African cities
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... form of farming, in order to keep it within legal limits. Initial field research takes place in Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso and Tamale/Ghana, and will then be extended to other West African cities. The trials will include small-scale crop-growing ... Comment?
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African fly-catchers beating disease
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... part to the painstaking work of villagers who catch the flies responsible for the disease. The Kou Valley in Burkina Faso is one of the country's most fertile areas; a land of lush paddy fields, undulating hills and a meandering river. What kept ... Comment?
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How native Americans hid in the Vatican for more than 500 years
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... GiniA s is the general manager of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Burkina Faso, which trains more than 2,000 engineers from more than 30 countries each year. Today 2iE is recognized as a 'center of ... Comment?
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