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Fadimata Walet Haiballa is a 49-year-old Tuareg woman from Gao in Mali. She’s been living in Fererio temporary refugee camp, Burkina Faso for nearly 6 months now. Her husband was killed in the violence in the…

Posted by Mark Wentling, Plan Burkina Faso Country Director 10 July 2012: Recently I visited the Mentao-South Camp near Djibo, a regional city 200km north of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The camp was established at…

CAMP de DAMBA, Burkina Faso, 9 juillet (HCR) – La célèbre cantatrice soprano Barbara Hendricks s'est rendue dans un camp au nord du Burkina Faso pour faire connaître le sort de dizaines de milliers de réfugiés…

DAMBA CAMP, Burkina Faso, July 9 (UNHCR) – Renowned soprano Barbara Hendricks has visited a camp in northern Burkina Faso to raise awareness about the plight of tens of thousands of Malian refugees in Africa's Sahel…

Highlights UNICEF is responding to a double emergency in Burkina Faso where the nutrition and refugee crises are affecting almost 3 million people. Out of an estimated 100,000 children under 5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2012,…

UNICEF urgently requires US$ 146 million to address the humanitarian needs of children and women in the Sahel in 2012. UNICEF emergency appeals in the Sahel have secured $93 million in funding against a revised requirement of…

By Helen Blakesley When I was told that my next trip would be to Burkina Faso, a land-locked Sahelian country in West Africa, truth be told, I wasn’t so enamored by the thought. Nothing to do with the…

Highlights UNICEF is responding to a double emergency in Burkina Faso where the nutrition and refugee crises are affecting almost 3 million people. Out of an estimated 100,000 children under 5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2012,…

(Ouagadougou/New York/Genève, 22 mai 2012): Les Nations Unies et leurs partenaires soutiennent les efforts du gouvernement du Burkina Faso pour répondre à la crise alimentaire et nutritionnelle qui affecte 2.8 million de personnes – soit un…

Humanitarian chief supports Burkina Faso’s approach to food crisis: Address urgent needs now and build resilience to future emergencies (Ouagadougou/New York, 22 May 2012) The United Nations and its partners are supporting the efforts…