Challenges for Children in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is one of the world’s toughest countries to be a child. With very high rates of poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity, education under attack, ...

Children in Burkina Faso also have lost access to education and basic healthcare in fighting-affected areas. The closure of schools is depriving almost 850,000 children of access to education, ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts another academic ...

A World Bank-led ethnographic study reveals how the lack of affordable childcare in urban Burkina Faso forces low-income ...

US philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has commended the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger for ...

Survivors recount a village massacre carried out by Burkina Faso’s security forces Lifeless children intertwined together. A 2-month-old face-up on the ground. The scenes were horrifying, but ...

One in seven children in Burkina Faso is expected to face hunger this summer. More than 8,000 people were killed last year in a conflict between extremists and the military. Image.

'They even murder children': Burkinabes caught in conflict crossfire. Ouangolodougou (AFP) – In northern Cote d'Ivoire, thousands of refugees from neighbouring Burkina Faso have fled two threats ...

Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has survived numerous assassination attempts since taking power in 2022, amid a complex web of internal betrayal, ... and children back home. ...