Burkina Faso News

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 .

The Islamic Development Bank has approved US$178.2 million for several development projects and technical assistance in member countries, including Malaysia, as well as Muslim communities in non-member ...

HALIFAX, Aug. 26 /CNW/ - Etruscan Resources Inc. reported on additional reverse circulation drill results on the Bitou permits in southern Burkina Faso, highlighted by 36 meters of 3.9 grams per tonne gold in a ...

A former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor has told the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the United States released the strongman from jail in 1985 to engineer the overthrow of ...

One of Liberia's most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia's president.

An official at the Ghana Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, confirmed to the Times on telephone that the spillway of the Bagre Dam will be opened Sunday.

Judges at a beauty contest in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, have picked a winner weighing 117kg.

Small world. I started reading "Our Good Earth," Charles Mann's superb National Geographic story on dirt because Tyler Cohen called it "one of the best magazine pieces of this year." I certainly wasn't ...

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Land Transport Department under the Ministry of Communications hosted a welcoming dinner for delegates participating in the 14th Asian Land Transport Working Group Meeting , at the ...

Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation .

The Richland County Public Library will hold a special summer reading wrap-up party from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Southeast Regional Branch.

The Nagasaki municipal government held a ceremony Saturday marking the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, at which participants called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.

A MUDSLIDE unleashed by torrential rains killed at least 40 illegal gold miners in Burkina Faso, a minister said today.

More than 30 illegal gold miners have been killed and more are missing after a mine collapsed in Burkina Faso after heavy rain.

More than 30 illegal gold miners were killed and more were missing after a mine collapsed in Burkina Faso after heavy rain, authorities in the West African country said today.

Today is Republic Day in Burkina Faso. Until the end of the 19th century the history of Burkina Faso was dominated by the empire-building Mossi.

GM Crops: Burkina Faso recently became the first West African country to agree to test genetically modified crops .

" Sudan has pressed, the third member in the African group at the U.N. Security Council to support efforts to counter the ICC prosecution of charges of Darfur crimes against president Omer al-Bashir. Last Week, ...