Burkina Faso News Archives

Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore today started a two-day official visit to Sudan where he will hold talks with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Darfur conflict The visit is part of the distinguished relations between the two countries and tends to coordinate between the two sides in the issues of mutual concern," said Haydar ...

The issue of corruption has become so pervasive in the Ghanaian society to the extent that it is now perceived in certain quarters as a pedestrian and banal subject which does not deserve any discussion.

Conakry - Many residents of Conakry and other Guinean towns stayed at home on Wednesday in a quiet protest at the army's massacre of opposition demonstrators exactly a month earlier.

Blue helmet inspecting weapons collected from Ivorian militias 27 October 2009 &#150 Both sides in Cote d'Ivoire, which has been divided for more than seven years between the Government-controlled south and the rebel Forces Nouvelles-held north, are violating the arms embargo imposed on the country, according to a new United Nations report.

A man feeds a chicken to a crocodile in the sacred marsh of Sabou near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The opposition to Guinea's junta plans to meet the mediator in the country's political crisis, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, on November 2, an opposition member said.

The top United Nations envoy to the Cote d'Ivoire today called on the West African nation to build on momentum towards holding its much-delayed presidential elections, slated for the end of next month.

Two months to the United Nations' climate summit, African leaders have drawn up a $65 billion dollar budget to deal with the effects of environment change.

Guinea's isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's massacre of opposition demonstrators, the UN official leading the probe said.

Guinea's military leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara has postponed an announcement on whether he will stand in next year's presidential election.

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts, matched in number only by the military coups it has endured, especially during the 1980s.

Ouagadougou, Oct 13 African heads of State advocate the development of solar, hydraulic, and wind energy to cope with energy needs in the next 20 years.

BRUSSELS 6 October 2009 Sapa-AFP EU BACKS GUINEA MEDIATOR, URGES RETURN TO LAW AND ORDER The European Union threw its weight Tuesday behind Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore as Guinea mediator and urged all sides to work to restore order after last week's massacre in Conakry.

BURKINA FASO'S president, Blaise Compaore, flew to Guinea as part of a regional mediation effort following the recent killing of 200 protestors, allegedly by Junta military.

AS AFRICAN policy makers demand compensation for the effects of climate change at a forum in Burkina Faso's capital, the country's farmers fight a daily struggle to halt the advancing Sahara desert.

African policy makers meet in Ouagadougou Friday to discuss climate change just two months before a critical U.N. summit where African countries are poised to seek billions in compensation for the effects of global warming.

The Parish of Saint Camillus in Ouagadougou celebrated the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with 19 young men who had expressed their desire to belong to the Lord in the Order of Ministers of the Sick.

Guinea's military government and its political opponents have agreed to meet in Burkina Faso, as part of regional mediation following last week's killing of at least 157 opposition demonstrators.

Guinea's leader on Monday dismissed the French foreign minister's call for international intervention in the West African country after soldiers there opened fire on demonstrators last week, killing at least 57.

Eight-year-old Gracie Doran has always been partial to butterflies because they are colorful and pretty.

An International Monetary Fund mission headed by Ms. Malangu Kabedi-Mbuyi visited Ouagadougou during September 17-October 2, 2009 to carry out the fifth review of the authorities' economic and financial program supported by the IMF under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility , and to conduct the 2009 Article IV consultation discussions.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Tropical Diseases Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 01 Oct 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently commended Tanazanian President Jakaya Kikwete on the country's utilization of U.S. aid money and vowed her support for the country's future development projects, ...

African leaders attending a UN debate here on Friday called for reform of the global financial system, saying that African countries should be guaranteed a greater voice.