And as violence increases, and people crowd displacement sites in the country's remote north and east, exposed to hunger and disease, more are expected to arrive in the capital. Burkina Faso junta ...

Engulfed in violence, Burkina Faso has been named the world’s most neglected displacement crisis for the second year, by the NRC. In 2024, 6.3 million people in the country will need ...

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world ... crisis due to widespread insecurity and violent conflict that has led to massive population displacement and inter-community strife. With ...

A combined force of 5,000 troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon be deployed to address security challenges in ...

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS. Increased conflict in rural areas in Burkina Faso has led to massive displacement, forcing a mass exodus of people fleeing toward urban areas. Since the summer ...

Earlier this month, the UN said the worsening violence in Burkina Faso had led to one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises, with 3 million people displaced across the Sahel.

State TV showed pictures of the rescued women and children on Friday evening Security forces in Burkina Faso have rescued 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

including to Burkina Faso, South Sudan and Honduras, and facilitated dialogue and knowledge-sharing among States on implementing laws and policies on internal displacement. Over the past two decades, ...

Ghana 39;s President John Dramani Mahama has appointed retired army officer Larry Gbevlo-Lartey as the special envoy to the ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamist extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and traumatized, they fled in search of ...