Burkina Faso News » Sahel News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: ‘Bloody meat’: Burkina Faso’s livestock raids fuelling Sahel insurgency
On a Saturday night in April 2024, during the holy month of Ramadan, dozens of pastoralists gathered for evening prayers at a makeshift cattle camp outside Fada N’Gourma, eastern Burkina Faso’s ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: Sahel Countries Issue an Urgent Call to Strengthen Irrigation, Increase its Benefits, and Improve Food Security
The governments of the Sahel countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Chad — gathered in Dakar for a high-level forum marking the tenth anniversary of the Declaration on ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: Building Resilience, Not Dependence: Burkina Faso Redesigns Social Protection
The World Bank has approved a five-year, $120 million project aimed at expanding economic opportunities for vulnerable households and strengthening Burkina Faso’s social protection system. Building on ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Report shows Sahel accounted for 51% of global terrorism deaths in 2024
The Sahel is the region most affected by terrorism, accounting for over half of all deaths from terrorism in 2024, and 19% of attacks globally, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2025 which ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation
Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Finance: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announce establishment of Alliance of Sahel States at inaugural joint summit
The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announced on Saturday the establishment of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) at the first joint summit of the three Sahel states. The leader of ...