The Community Development and Advocacy Centre (CODAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is implementing a pilot project dubbed”, Women Against Violent Extremism (WAVE)” in some border districts ...

Interview. Activist Dayamba Bindré Roger warns that crises and conflicts increase vulnerability, making people easy targets ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Their loved ones were slaughtered ... including her husband. Then they ordered women and children to leave. She grabbed her children, and cooking pots, and ...

Women slain with ... and suspended assistance to Burkina Faso’s military but still supplies nonlethal equipment to civilian security forces such as the national police. In January, it delivered ...

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

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested 165 illegal immigrants from Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast, Benin Republic, and Niger Republic, all found living in a cramped three-bedroom apartment ...

Burkina Faso used to be known for its vibrant intellectual life. Now, even friends are afraid to discuss politics. “I feel like I am in prison,” said a local women’s rights activist.