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

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, ...

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

Despite significant needs, UNICEF’s humanitarian appeal for Central Sahel children — totaling US$ 489.7 million — is less ...

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 ...

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 ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina ...

'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 ...

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.

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. ...