Burkina Faso News » Sahel News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: UN alarmed as number of displaced in central Sahel reaches nearly four million
The United Nations on Friday raised the alarm about a displacement crisis in the central Sahel where nearly four million people have been forced to flee their homes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: 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 » People: 170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel
In a series of massacres over the past two weeks, more than 170 people were killed in Burkina Faso, a former French colony plunged into bloodshed by France’s 2013-2022 war in neighboring Mali. Victims ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: Around four million people displaced across Africa’s Sahel, UN warns
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People who fled attacks by ISIL in northern Burkina Faso are pictured at a camp for the internally displaced in Ouagadougou, ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: Sahel Displacement Reaches 3.8 Million as UN Calls for Investment in Lives and Futures
The Central Sahel is a region of consequence. We cannot be indifferent,” Salih said, pointing to the wider implications of insecurity, climate pressures and forced displacement.
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: 2 days after Burkina Faso voted to reinstate the death penalty, Mali broadens powers to revoke citizenship as Sahel leaders tighten state control
Mali has expanded the grounds on which the state can strip citizens of their nationality, two days after neighbouring Burkina Faso approved the restoration of the death penalty, highlighting a tougher ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » People: ‘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 ...