Burkina Faso

The Sole Woman Running for President of Burkina Faso Says: ‘I Will Win’

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 room where teenage boys jostle to play a soccer video game. Upstairs in her apartment, …

Africa, Governance, Women

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The UN’s 12th Nobel Peace Prize: Our Latest Podcast Episode

October 16, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

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 Nobel Peace Prize and that its executive director, David Beasley, was in town, so she …

Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations

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As the Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded to the World Food Program, Famines Loom

October 10, 2020

by Clair MacDougall

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — 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 unable to raise enough money to cope with the crisis. “2021 is going to be …

Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations

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Mali’s Coup, Belarus’s Protests, Pompeo’s Brief Appearance at the UN

August 22, 2020

by Allison Lecce

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 the United Nations Security Council, as most of its members still push back. Greetings from This …

Africa, Middle East, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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TAKE A LOOK

Where the Hungriest People in the World Live

October 25, 2017

by Barbara Crossette

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 dictate every step of a food chain. “In food systems, power is exercised in a …

Africa, Asia, Poverty, Take a Look

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A Gift for Balance: ‘Soba’ Ladies Sell Their Goods

March 6, 2016

by Nabila El Hadad

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 cars and motos, the skin of their feet cracked by the daily march, the lines …

Africa, Women

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In Burkina Faso, a US Ambassador Wins Over a Slice of Francophone West Africa

January 13, 2016

by Dulcie Leimbach

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 stability: Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Togo. Near the heart of a well-coordinated …

Africa, US Foreign Relations

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A Monastery’s Farm in Burkina Faso Feels the Impacts of Climate Change

December 5, 2015

by Dulcie Leimbach

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 communities scrape together livelihoods in a region that is extra-vulnerable to drought and hunger, problems …

Africa, Climate and Environment, Development, Health and Population

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WORLDVIEWS

After a Notable UN Career, Sending Young Women to University in Burkina Faso

May 10, 2015

by Frederic Eckhard

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 Burkina Faso, I spend three to four hours a day on the computer running an …

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Burkina Faso

The Sole Woman Running for President of Burkina Faso Says: ‘I Will Win’

The UN’s 12th Nobel Peace Prize: Our Latest Podcast Episode

As the Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded to the World Food Program, Famines Loom

Mali’s Coup, Belarus’s Protests, Pompeo’s Brief Appearance at the UN

Where the Hungriest People in the World Live

A Gift for Balance: ‘Soba’ Ladies Sell Their Goods

In Burkina Faso, a US Ambassador Wins Over a Slice of Francophone West Africa

A Monastery’s Farm in Burkina Faso Feels the Impacts of Climate Change

After a Notable UN Career, Sending Young Women to University in Burkina Faso

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