And if they defy instructions to marry or carry and mother a child they have not chosen to have? Chances are they will be threatened or beaten. Our new research reveals the true extent of this. Read ...

In Burkina Faso, over 2.2 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance, almost half of them children. Burkina Faso is one of the world’s toughest countries to be a child. With very high ...

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

He is automatically against it. 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 ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso has experienced a convergence of crises, including inter-ethnic violence, armed conflict, poverty, inequalities, food insecurity, and environmental change. As a result, over 1.4 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.