Roch Marc Kaboré
- Clair MacDougall
- • November 19, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Monique YĂ©li 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
- 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…
- Nabila El Hadad
- • February 9, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — It was about 7:30 p.m. when the meeting began on the fourth floor of the Splendid Hotel here on Jan. 15 in this capital city. Fourteen people were gathered to discuss the launching of a…
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 29, 2015
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — This small but determined West African country voted on Sunday in its first presidential election since its last president, Blaise CompaorĂ©, was ousted in October 2014. He had ruled the country for 27 years and…
- Categories: Africa, Governance
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