Reports

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a credit of US$50 million to help Burkina Faso fight poverty and increase social stability by giving unemployed or underemployed young people opportunities…

Dans le cadre des activités marquant le cent cinquantenaire (150 ans) du Mouvement de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, la Société Nationale Burkinabè a procédé à une distribution de vivres et de non vivres. Le jeudi…

Du 06 au 07 avril 2013, le projet kit d’hygiène de la Croix-Rouge Burkinabè a procédé à sa troisième distribution de kits au profit des refugiés maliens sur les sites de Saag-Nioniongo à 35 kilomètres de…

OUAGADOUGOU, 19 mai 2013 (IRIN) - Plus tôt cette année, la maison de torchis de Denis Ouedraogo, un tailleur du quartier de Tampouy, dans le nord de Ouagadougou, la capitale burkinabée, a été raccordée au réseau…

By Shantha Bloemen DORI, Burkina Faso, 16 May 2013 - After 35 days at Dori Hospital, 15 of them in a coma, 2-year-old Mariama now weighs 6.5 kilograms and is on the road to recovery. When she…

OUAGADOUGOU, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first…

On 8 May 2013 the Federal Council decided to grant Burkina Faso and Mozambique general budgetary assistance of CHF 32 million each for the years 2013 to 2016. This will support both countries in implementation of…

Fund will Spur Investment in African Agriculture Infrastructure For Immediate Release Thursday, May 9, 2013 USAID Press Office 202-712-4320 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Today, Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Donald Kaberuka, the President…

Highlights To date 49,975 Malian refugees are registered in Burkina Faso, 54.3% of them are children between 0-17. The number of new SAM admissions from January to mid-March 2013 amounts 11,141 children, representing 9.5% of annual target. From January…

Normal start in bi-modal zone and a good progression of the season in Guinean-Sudanian zone KEY MESSAGES • February to April rainfall estimates (RFE) indicate that the onset of rains occurred earlier than normal this season with generally…