Burkina Faso News » Sahel News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: ‘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 » Places: Sahel: le nombre de déplacés au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger a presque doublé depuis 2020, selon le HCR
Le Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) alerte sur la crise des déplacements au Sahel : le Mali, le Burkina Faso et le Niger comptent désormais près de 4 millions de déplacés et ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: Burkina Faso leader vows AES alliance crackdown on armed groups in Sahel
Burkina Faso’s interim leader, who is part of a regional alliance of military-led countries that includes Mali and Niger, has announced “large-scale” joint operations against armed groups in the ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: US moves to re-engage Sahel juntas as Russia tightens grip on Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
The United States is recalibrating its approach to the Sahel as it seeks to reassert influence in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, three military-led states that have increasingly aligned themselves ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: 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 » Places: Dwindling Western influence amid uncertainty in the Sahel region
The Sahel region has become a focal point of deepening polarization between pro-Western “moderate” states and nations seeking independence from neo-colonial influence, relying instead on non-African ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: In the Sahel, alliances with Turkiye, China, Russia take the place of France
Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are run by sovereigntist juntas that came to power through coups between 2020 and 2023. They have joined forces as the Alliance of Sahel States (AoSS) and forced France to ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Places: La mission de haut niveau de l'ONU au Sahel central renforce la collaboration au Burkina Faso
La mission en cours au Sahel central, dirigée par le Coordonnateur spécial des Nations Unies pour le développement au Sahel, le Secrétaire général adjoint Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, et le Directeur régional ...