While widespread malnutrition remains the biggest child killer in Burkina Faso, mothers' tasks are made all the more arduous by a chronic lack of access to contraception, Melinda Gates, wife of ...

Help Children in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it ...

Four French IT workers with diplomatic passports and visas have been arrested in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday, denying a media report that they ...

Moroccans don’t smoke as much as many other countries, but tobacco use is still a public health concern, according to a new report by the CIA’s World Factbook. The report says that about 12.3% of the ...

The CIA wants to share what it knows about world space programs. Some of what it knows, anyway. The United States Central Intelligence Agency, better known as the CIA, has released a new entry in ...

The president of Burkina Faso has been overthrown by a group of soldiers in the third military coup in west Africa in eight months. A soldier, surrounded by a dozen armed troops, said on national ...

Burkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go along with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there," he said. "I believe a mine in southern Burkina has been allocated to them as a form of ...

It's the latest twist in relations between France and Burkina Faso. Four French agents from the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE) were arrested in Ouagadougou on December 1.

In Burkina Faso, contraceptives can be hard to access, ... The fertility rate in Burkina Faso was 5.71 children per woman in 2017, according to the CIA World Factbook.

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts and military coups. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in ...

Document - Astounding allegations have come forth about the 1987 assassination of the former president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, through a documentary aired on Italy's public channel RAI3.

Security forces fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters outside the French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday, as unrest simmered in the ...