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 ...

Some 35 percent of children under the age of 5 are malnourished based on ... and their eligibility was determined using a combination of Burkina Faso national household data and a survey that looked ...

Security forces have rescued 66 women and children who were kidnapped by armed fighters in northern Burkina Faso last week. Armed men seized the women and their children on January 12 and 13 ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Their loved ones were slaughtered ... with trouble finding jobs and sending children to school. For decades, the Fulani were neglected by the central government ...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion ...

half of them children. The unrest has pusheding tens of thousands to the brink of starvation. Around half of Burkina Faso’s territory remains outside of government control, analysts say.

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 ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend were released in Niger, officials said.

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...