Informes

VOA Africa's Bagassi Koura contributed to this report. Gunmen killed six people attending mass at the Catholic Church of Dablo in northern Burkina Faso Sunday morning, officials and witnesses said. The priest and five churchgoers were among the…

Violence, displacement, and deteriorating humanitarian conditions raise the risks of family separation and abuse of girls and boys SOS Children’s Villages plans to support up to 1,200 children in northern Burkina Faso, where regional unrest and displacement…

Genève, le 8 mai - Les hauts responsables de l'ONU au Burkina Faso, Mali et Niger ont averti aujourd'hui que l'insécurité et les attaques armées dans le Sahel ont atteint des niveaux sans précédent. Ils ont…

Geneva, 8 May – Top UN officials today warned that insecurity and armed attacks in the Sahel have reached unprecedented levels. They called for increased humanitarian aid to millions of people affected by the spread of violence. Briefing UN…

The west African nation is experiencing a period of escalating violence, leading to the country’s greatest displacement crisis in recorded history. Since July violence involving militant groups has displaced almost 150,000 people in Burkina Faso -- and…

Since July 2018, Burkina Faso has started to see an increase in violent incidents involving militant groups causing internal displacement in the North, Sahel, Central-North and East regions. Internally displaced persons are predominantly residing within host-communities,…

Carla Babb Violence fueled by extremists is on the rise in the West African nation of Burkina Faso and appears to be getting worse. In April more than 65 people died in ethnic clashes inflamed by Islamist extremists…

Highlights Since early January 2019, the humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso has further deteriorated. The number of internally displaced persons has unprecedently increased, mostly in Sahel and Centre-Nord regions, due to increased attacks by violent extremist groups,…

Key developments in Africa in the week of April 21st include the deterioration of the security situation in the Soum province of Burkina Faso; the United States airstrikes on Islamic State targets in northern Somalia amid…

Contexte : Dans la région de l’Est comme dans d’autres localités du pays, les incidents sécuritaires perpétrés par des groupes d’individus armés non identifiés sont de plus en plus récurrents, créant ainsi des Personnes Déplacés Internes…