Burkina Faso News

Suffer a witch to live... In his sixth feature film, S. Pierre Yameogo explores how patriarchy and gender discrimination are tied to superstitious customs and presents a stirring, clear-eyed catalyst for change ...

FEMI AWODELE'S HOUSE CALL Femi Awodele Friday, October 10, 2008 MY TRIP TO OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO his is one trip I was not very sure of till very late, it was on and off again many times.

Narrated by award-winning actor and outspoken activist Danny Glover this 82-minute documentary chronicles FESPACO an African film festival held bi-annually every odd year in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in West ...

Just a quick thank you to those of you who have been raising funds for the Gorom-Gorom School .

This is what a statement from the Ivory Coast's leadership said, informing that another 13 soldiers have deserted and 'are actively being searched for.' On September 27, a group of soldiers took to the streets ...

An International Monetary Fund team, led by Mr. Norbert Funke, visited Burkina Faso during September 17-October 1, 2008 to conduct the third review under the three-year economic program supported by the Poverty ...

T HE 180th Session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation opens today in Paris, France.

Addis Ababa, September 24 - The Ethiopian Airlines announced that it will commence new flight services to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, effective 26 October 2008.

Investments in the agriculture of developing countries should replace food aid as part of the reforms needed to face the challenges of this century, African presidents told the General Assembly on the second ...

This is my family in Gorom-Gorom. As usual you can click on photos to enlarge. Left : Pierre and Asetu and children.

OUAGADOUGOU, 22 September 2008 - With cervical cancer cases rising across Sub-Saharan Africa, and 80 percent of women diagnosed too late to stop the cancer's deadly spread, the World Health Organization is ...

From a village in one of the poorest nations in the world to the home of a Chico family, it's been a long journey for Koudougou Koala, who just started his second year at Butte College.

In November, we will be drilling 6 wells, and repairing 5 other pumps in remote and dry areas in the sahel area of northern Burkina Faso.

Ouagadougou - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is "satisfied" with the power-sharing deal hammered out with President Robert Mugabe, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said on Friday.

The Nigeria Football Federation yesterday consoled the family of the late Etubom Oyo Orok Oyo, the former Vice President of the Confederation of African Football who died in his home town, Calabar yesterday ...

Thousands of Kayan people from Burma, sometimes called "long-neck Karen," have in recent decades, like hundreds of thousands of other Burmese, fled as refugees from the civil war in their country to Thailand.

Ottawa's Orezone Resources Inc. on Wednesday announced the closing of a US$40 million debt facility with The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., a deal which the company said will allow for continued ...

When Piers Handling persuaded a young film critic to join the Perspective Canada program committee almost 20 years ago, it was a prescient move.

To tide you over until Amazing Race 13 begins on September 28, tune into The Travel Channel .

OUAGADOUGOU, 1 September 2008 - Heavy rains and violent winds in Burkina Faso have killed six people, wounded 18, and left 4,200 homeless according to the government's National Council for Emergency Aid .