Burkina Faso News » Sahel News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Life: In Burkina Faso, the ‘Mother of the Sahel’ brings education and hope to forcibly displaced children
Born and raised in Dori, in the far northeast of Burkina Faso, Maimouna Ba was the youngest of 12 children living in the country’s vast, remote and arid Sahel region, a six-hour drive from the capital ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Life: As conflict grips Sahel, herders are pivoting to an unusual city life
Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That’s until the day armed men descended on his home in northern Burkina Faso and seized ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Life: Tuareg Refugees Are Stuck Between Poverty and Violence
Deep in the West African Sahel, thousands of refugees from Mali, displaced by two years of conflict, wait in the dust. Battered by the vicious desert sun, they shelter under makeshift tents of mats ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Life: Sahel schoolteachers face Jihadist threat
No sector has been spared the impact of the Jihadist conflicts in the Sahel. Even the education sector remains profoundly impacted by armed group operations and threats. The school year that began in ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Life: Can pineapples thrive in Africa's Sahel? A Burkina Faso farmer says the answer is yes
Farmer Oumarou Compaoré speaks to the Associated Press as he stands by one of the irrigation systems at Djoda Farm in Matourkou, near Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP ...