Burkina Faso has taken a big step toward changing its jail system by instituting a reform that links offenders' sentences to ...

13-year-old 'Maria' spoke to us at the women's shelter pictured above in May 2015 In some parts of Burkina Faso, more than half of all girls are married off before they turn 18. They have no say in ...

A West African organisation is working with local churches and rural communities in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to support ...

He stressed that Burkina Faso’s government has deliberately encouraged farming by providing irrigation and support services, allowing farmers to cultivate crops efficiently. In contrast ...

Suspected fighters from the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have launched a devastating assault on Guiedougou, a village in western Burkina Faso, killing an estimated 300 people.

Women and girls in Burkina Faso are being discriminated against by a system that won’t let them make decisions about their education, healthcare and contraception. We’re campaigning for the ...

(Nairobi) – 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 ...

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Burkina Faso extends amnesty to those involved in failed 2015 coup Two generals considered the masterminds of the failed coup, Compaoré's former chief of staff Gilbert Diendéré and head of ...