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Twenty years ago, Paris-based fashion designer François Yameogo returned to his native Burkina Faso to build a facility specialising in making Faso Danfani, the country's traditional fabric, for ...
(Nairobi) – The government of Burkina Faso should immediately investigate and provide information on the whereabouts of the prominent human rights activist Daouda Diallo, Human Rights Watch said ...
Burkina Faso battered by Islamist violence "According to a video that has been circulating, ... "Bodies of men dressed in civilian clothes with shovels and shoes but no weapons.
BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso - In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because its high-quality fibre lent a luxurious sheen ...
Burkina Faso’s human rights situation deteriorated considerably in 2023, ... On February 9, gunmen wearing sand-colored clothes and turbans attacked Dassa, killing two men.
More than 8 million school-aged children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been forced from school. A new UNICEF report released on Tuesday quantifies the alarming human cost of the escalating ...
The military junta in Burkina Faso, ... Then, on Christmas Eve, two men in civilian clothes rang the doorbell of Ablassé Ouedraogo, a former foreign affairs minister and an opposition leader.
Burkina Faso, a former French colony, was plunged into bloody internal fighting by French imperialism’s 2013-2021 war in neighboring Mali.
A new UNICEF report released on Tuesday quantifies the alarming human cost of the escalating violence in the Sahel. More than 8 million school-aged children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have ...