Africa Burkina Faso Over USD 3 million to support "the education emergency in Burkina Faso" will be mobilized following a Memorandum of Understanding between the Qatar Development Fund and Burkina Faso
Africa Burkina Faso The 28th Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou closes today with 15 fiction features competing to win the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, Fespaco's highest award
Africa Burkina Faso The prime ministers of Burkina Faso and Mali, who co-chaired a joint Mali-Burkina Faso Council of Ministers, said they had laid the foundations for a federation between the two neighbouring states 'which share common challenges'
Africa Burkina Faso MSF said that following the attack in which two staff members were killed on 8 February 2023 in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, all activities in the country will be suspended in order to analyse the risks to which the teams are currently exposed
Africa Burkina Faso 'Faso Dan Fani', a fabric completely made in Burkina, the first to be certified as such, will soon characterise the clothing of the country's students with new school uniforms made of this fabric, as desired by the Ministry of Education
Africa Burkina Faso 16th edition of Ouagadougou International Handicrafts Fair has kicked off under the theme 'African handicrafts, lever of development and factor of resilience of populations'; 16th edition, inaugurated with transitional president Traore, will finish today
Africa Burkina Faso After some protests against the presence of French troops, the ruling military junta asked Paris to withdraw within a month the special session task force Sabre, present in the country since 2010
Africa Burkina Faso World Food Programme will conduct a study on school feeding in the country, the first of 11 African countries selected by WFP to carry out this study
Africa Burkina Faso 28 bodies were found in Nouna over the weekend: the government started investigation immediately; the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities denounced "abuses" by Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland, army auxiliaries
Africa Burkina Faso The State granted a subsidy of 1,5 billion CFA francs (almost €2,3 million) to film projects, a few months before the 28th Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou opens in of February
Africa Burkina Faso The 28th Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou will be held from 25 February to 4 March 2023; the dates have been confirmed by Cabinet Director of the Ministry of Communication, Culture, Arts and Tourism
Africa Burkina Faso It was supposed to end today, in Bobo-Dioulasso, the 20th edition of the National Culture Week, postponed to a date to be determined by the government due to the insecurity in the country
Africa Burkina Faso Number of children deprived of their families and placed in shelters for minors in difficulty and foster families amounts to 4.884, as stated by the Minister of Solidarity, Humanitarian Action, National Reconciliation, Gender and Family