Burkina Faso News

Opposition parties walked out of a meeting in parliament this week in protest over the creation of a Senate.

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.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, welcomes Mali's President Dioncounda Traore upon his arrival at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday May 14, 2013.

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 .

This is from a small village called Tangora near the town of Banfora in southwestern Burkina Faso.

Vancouver-based explorer TrueGold Mining received a capital shot in the arm and vote of confidence from major Teck Resources following a $10 million non-brokered private placement that saw the larger company subscribe for roughly 30 million shares of the African-focused gold explorer at 33 per share.

Africa is beginning to win its battle against the parasitic river blindness infection, thanks in no small part to the painstaking work of villagers who catch the flies responsible for the disease.

A WOMAN from York has learned first-hand about international poverty by volunteering in one of the poorest countries in the world, writes Kezia Buckley.

According to a report by Agence Ecofin, United Arab Emirates-based telecoms company Etisalat has submitted a request to France's Court of Cassation to review previous decisions related to Telecel, a mobile operator in Burkina Faso.

Workers drill into the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge, Kan., using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", to coax out oil and natural gas.

European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, has met today Lamoussa Salif Kabore, Minister for Energy of Burkina Faso, to sign the financing agreement to support the construction of a solar power plant in that country.