Yet this is far from the reality. Burkina Faso has some of the highest rates of child marriage and forced marriage in the world, despite the fact that forcing someone to marry against their will is a ...

including a young child, are alive, surrounded by about 35 dead or dying people. Human Rights Watch could not confirm what happened to them. Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have been ...

When the husband speaks, we have to put up with everything… Without money, there was nothing I could do and the last child, which I did not want, was born.’ Héléne Héléne’s situation is all-too-common ...

Over the period 1990–2019, infant, under-5, and maternal mortality rates among LMICs declined at average annualised rates of ...

Hey moms and dads! Florida needs your kids to pick crops, clean motel rooms. With migrants fleeing, Florida is rolling back ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government-allied militia, Human Rights Watch said ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked to a "gruesome" massacre in a western city that left dozens dead this week, Human Rights Watch ...

Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of Solenzo on March 10 ...