Burkina Faso
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 28, 2022
It was UN day this week! Hurray!! We saw schoolchildren around the world celebrate the creation of the organization on Oct. 24, 1945, and we also took a cue from the message of the UN secretary-general. You are reading…
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 21, 2022
This week, a United Nations agency released a damning report on how plastics are damaging our world and harming the people in it. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Clair MacDougall
- • March 10, 2022
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Two-thousand civilian deaths. Countless “forced disappearances.” More than 1.7 million people displaced. The citizens of Burkina Faso have paid a price for the violent jihadist campaign leading up to Jan. 23, when the military seized…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
- Clair MacDougall
- • October 25, 2021
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Anta Guissé has spent a large part of her 20-year career defending people accused of war crimes in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia and the Central African Republic before United Nations-backed international tribunals and the International…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
- Clair MacDougall
- • November 19, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Monique Yéli Kam’s war room is not a typical campaign headquarters for a national presidential candidate. A dusty white marquis stands next to stacked blue chairs fanning out to a balcony that leads to a…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • October 16, 2020
Clair MacDougall was reporting on a follow-up story for PassBlue about Lieut. Col. Carlos Moisés Guillén Alfaro, the first official United Nations peacekeeper to die of Covid-19, when on Oct. 9 she heard that the World Food Program was awarded the…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
- Clair MacDougall
- • October 10, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso —Â David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program, this year’s just-announced Nobel Peace Prize winner, has warned that the number of people facing starvation could double next year, to 270 million, if the agency is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Allison Lecce
- • August 22, 2020
A military coup in Mali; massive protests in Belarus over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko; more than a million people displaced in Burkina Faso; and the United States takes its next step to extend the Iran arms embargo through…
- Categories: Africa, Middle East, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 25, 2017
The 2017 Global Hunger Index produced many sadly predictable findings but also worrying surprises. The report’s subtitle, “The Inequalities of Hunger,” suggests a reason. Naomi Hossain, the guest author of the report, looks at the power structures that can…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Poverty, Take a Look
- Nabila El Hadad
- • March 6, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Everyday, from dawn to dusk, under intense sunshine, thousands of women travel to work through the streets of this capital of nearly three million inhabitants, managing like tightrope walkers the dusty, cratered roads, slaloming between…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 13, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Nowhere can the positive presence of the United States in West Africa be more obvious than in the quiet, dusty nation of Burkina Faso, a mostly rural state surrounded by six other countries of ranging…
- Categories: Africa, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 5, 2015
KOUBRI, Burkina Faso — More than 2,500 miles away from this village, world leaders met recently in Paris to try to save the earth from severe climate change and its deadly effects. Here in West Africa, people in rural…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Development, Health and Population
- Frederic Eckhard
- • May 10, 2015
SAINT-QUAY-PORTRIEUX, France — My wife, Kathryn, was against it from the beginning. “You’ll have no time for yourself,” she said. In a sense, she was right. Five years after starting a nongovernment organization that supports women’s higher education in…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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