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Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

Ghanaian actor and musician Lil Win gave students in the Ashanti region a showdown at the Baba Yara stadium on July 2, ...

The World Bank guidance outlines a comprehensive framework for integrating Human Capital Accompanying Measures (HCAMs) into ...

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

Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior correspondent with New Narratives Liberia has been included on a proposed list of 51 ...

The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took ...

President Bio said his leadership would focus on restoring constitutional order and deepening democracy, revitalising regional security cooperation, unlocking economic integration, and building ...

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

As conflict forced thousands of children to flee to the safety of her hometown, Maimouna Ba rallied the community to provide support and education. Her organization Femmes pour la Dignite du Sahel ...

Born and raised in Dori, in the far northeast of Burkina Faso, Maimouna Ba was the youngest of 12 children living in the country’s vast, remote and arid Sahel region, a six-hour drive from the capital ...

'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 ...