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

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

Nigeria has ranked among the least peaceful countries in Africa for the year 2025, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI). ContentsSudanDemocratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)South SudanMaliBurkina ...

INTERPOL has arrested 769 people and seized illegal medicine worth USD 65 million in a global operation against ...

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 ...

'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. In Ouagadougou, in May.

FILE- Children gather in a classroom at school in the village of Dori, Burkina Faso, Oct. 20, 2020. It was there that Safi learned how post-traumatic stress can affect children.

Mental health services in Burkina Faso are often reserved for only the most severe cases. A U.N. survey published in 2023 showed 103 mental health professionals in the country of more than 20 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — When armed men entered Safi’s village in northern Burkina Faso and began firing, she hid in her home with her four children. The gunmen found them and let them live — to ...