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
Africa Burkina Faso EU humanitarian airlift for the people of Burkina Faso was launched in Ouagadougou on 11 November to deliver up to 800 tonnes of emergency supplies to the hardest-to-reach areas over the next three months
Africa Burkina Faso Government formally protested against 'false statements' by Radio France Internationale and Jeune Afrique, condemning 'cavalier and light treatment' given to the recruitment of 50.000 volunteer defence fighters for the fight against terrorism
Africa Burkina Faso Following jihadist attacks in the country, security deteriorated and over 4.000 people have been displaced this year in northern Togo
Africa Burkina Faso Mariam Ouédraogo, journalist for Éditions Sidwaya du Burkina Faso, is the first African journalist to win the Bayeux Calvados-Normandie prize for war correspondents