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Investigate Possible Politically Motivated Conscription of Daouda Diallo (Nairobi) – The government of Burkina Faso should immediately investigate and provide information on the whereabouts of the prominent human rights activist Daouda Diallo, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 1, 2023, at about 4 p.m., four or more unidentified men abducted Diallo, the secretary-general of […]
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Junta Using Conscription to Punish Critics Burkina Faso’s military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Between November 4 and 5, 2023, the Burkinabe security forces notified in writing or by telephone at least a dozen journalists, civil society activists, and […]
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By Marine Olivesi Over a million children in Burkina Faso are currently affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of over 40 per cent since the end of the last school year. Nearly one out of four schools country-wide are now out of service due to rampant insecurity […]
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Captain Ibrahim Traore of the Burkina Faso army has deposed military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government in the West African country’s second coup in eight months; he said in a statement on national television on Friday evening. Traore stated that a group of officers who assisted Damiba in seizing power in January had […]
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Manéga Bendrologie Museum Established by Frédéric Pacéré Titinga, who wanted the world to know more about the many different tribes that make up Burkina Faso. The museum is located 55 km northwest of the city Ouagadougou, in the village of Manega, Burkina Faso. Music Museum The National Museum of Music is a cultural institution located […]
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Burkina Faso is working hard to emerge from the large-scale political and social upheaval that characterized the 18 months following the popular uprising that resulted in the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. In view of the presidential and legislative elections held in November 2015, and the largely successful municipal elections in May […]
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Every year, rainy season in Africa rhyme with drinking polluted waters, wading in stagnant feces-infested rainwaters and sleeping in unhealthy conditions. Yet we all have the right to clean water, hygiene and sanitation. Recalling the essential role played by national parliaments in their legislative, budgetary and control functions in the implementation of government projects, programmes […]
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Travel & Tourism Some might call Burkina Faso, a West African nation formerly known as Upper Volta, one of the lesser-known nations on the continent. That’s certainly no reflection of the cultural and natural marvels this small country has to offer. The Burkinabe are relentlessly friendly and fiercely proud of their cultural heritage, which make […]
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