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What You Need to Know Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa with a strong cultural identity and a long tradition of community resilience. Known historically for its role in regional trade and, more recently, for its vibrant arts and civic movements, Burkina Faso sits at the crossroads of West Africa’s Sahel and […]
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Contributed by In On Africa (IOA) Country overview: IOA’s experience conducting research and providing consulting services in Burkina Faso has been on-going for many years, empowering our ability to offer insights on topics and trends in the West African country. Long considered one of the world’s least developed countries, Burkina Faso has been further weakened […]
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Junta Leader Should Send New Family Law Back to Assembly for Revision Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly passed a law on September 1, 2025, that makes consensual same-sex relations a criminal offense, a major setback for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Under this new law, people found guilty of homosexuality could […]
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Secretary-General’s Report Documents Increasing Abuses Against Children Earlier this week, Burkina Faso’s junta expelled the top United Nations representative in the country, Carol Flore-Smereczniak, declaring her “persona non grata” following a new UN report on violations against children in the country. Flore-Smereczniak is the second senior UN official to be expelled by the junta, after Barbara […]
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As the effects of climate change intensify across the African continent, West Africa stands at the forefront of this crisis. The region is increasingly grappling with rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and worsening food insecurity. According to the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) index, countries like Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire are among the […]
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Burkina Faso’s military government has announced that it foiled a major coup attempt to overthrow junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré. The plot, allegedly involving current and former soldiers in collaboration with terrorist leaders, sought to attack the presidential palace and destabilize the country. Security Minister Mahamadou Sana also claimed that the masterminds of the coup […]
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Mali’s junta has arrested prominent politician Issa Kaou N’Djim for allegedly insulting Burkina Faso’s military leader, a crime under Malian law. N’Djim, a former ally of Mali’s military regime who later advocated for a return to democracy, criticized Burkina Faso’s junta on Joliba TV, claiming they fabricated evidence of a coup plot. Subsequently, he was […]
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The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), a leading African development organization, has today launched the “Promotion of Solar Solutions to Stimulate Green Employment in Burkina Faso” (PROSSEV-BF) project. This EUR 1.7 million initiative, funded by the Luxembourg Cooperation through LuxDev, aims to green production facilities and create jobs for local communities by adopting solar technologies. […]
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Locate ‘Disappeared’; Investigate Abusive Conscription; Hold Abusers to Account The Burkina Faso military junta is increasingly abducting civil society activists and political opponents as part of its crackdown on peaceful dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Since late November 2023, unidentified men have abducted at least six activists and opposition party members in the capital, […]
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Action Will Prevent Citizens from Seeking Justice through ECOWAS Court On January 28, the three military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announced they would leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a move that would limit opportunities for their citizens to seek justice for human rights violations. In a joint statement, […]
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