Burkina Faso News

Before February of this year, the women of the Zabre region of Burkina Faso had to walk more than a mile every day for water.

Chuntex Electronic Co CEO Chen Ming-der sits on a motorcycle on June 18 while introducing some of the company s products including monitors, beauty products and LED lamps.

Bollor Africa Logistics will open two new inland terminals in Burkina-Faso next year as it continues to roll out its logistics reach in west Africa.

Although many University students have decided to stay local this summer, there are 188 who have set their sights abroad.

Eritreans have always found it difficult to differentiate - freedom' with the politically overloaded word - independence', writes Gabriel Guangul.

The year 2008 was another strong year in many respect for the Ecobank group. Its total assets grew by 27 percent, to US$8.3 billion and its gross revenue exceeded US$ 1 billion for the first time despite a very difficult golbal economic and financial situation.

President Omar Bongo of Gabon died this week after nearly 42 years in power - who inherits his title as Africa's longest-serving leader? The BBC's Peter Lewenstein has compiled a list - in reverse order, by length of continuous time in office - of the 10 African heads of state who have stood the test of time.

The Ports Department, Ministry of Communication celebrated customer appreciation day yesterday at the Inland Container Depot Muara as well as the opening of the new Muara Inland Container Depot .

Ecobank group recorded marked growth last year despite the global financial crisis.

The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved an IDA grant in the amount of US$80 million for Burkina Faso to assist with the Urban Water Sector Project.

A leading advocacy group has linked escalating food prices and the sharp rise in living costs across Africa to violations of human rights across the continent in the last year.

When a scam is being presented to you, it can be too good to be true. I have entered real contests and have won valuable prizes before.

Nearly 5.5 million people - mostly women and children - are to receive birth certificates in a country-wide exercise over the next 12 months.

The Ports Department handed over the operation and maintenance of Muara Container Terminal to the International Container Terminal Services Inc, ICTSI, a worldwide container terminal services operator from the Philippines yesterday.

In the dusty town of Bobo-Dioulasso in Western Burkina Faso, young women in brightly- coloured dresses watch construction workers mix cement in the afternoon sun.

German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck has outraged more than just his European neighbors in the past week -- he also angered Africans by comparing Burkina Faso to tax havens like Switzerland and Luxembourg.

Angela Merkel's New Year's 2009 message to Germany and the world can sound eery or even negligent now: Her country and its "social market economy" had gotten things right.

The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 13 May 2009, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou presented by Archbishop Jean-Marie Untaani Compaore, in conformity with the Code of Canon Law, canon 401 1. The Holy Father appointed as Archbishop of Ouagadougou Bishop Philippe Ouedraogo, until now Bishop of ...

Ghana's Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, and the Minister of Posts and ICT of Burkina Faso, Noel Kabore, have held talks to review the progress made to date concerning plans to interconnect the two countries' respective fibre-optic communication networks.

DIOULASSO, 6 May 2009 - Construction has begun of West Africa's first clinic for reconstructing clitorises for victims of female genital mutilation/cutting . Amid high demand, the US non-profit Clitoraid is funding the clinic, dubbed "Pleasure Hospital", in Bobo-Dioulasso, western Burkina Faso.