[GhanaToday] The ECOWAS Commission through its Department of Human Development and Social Affairs (DHDSA) has launched a support programme for Education in countries with emergencies in the Region.

[The Conversation Africa] Violence in the Sahel is escalating, killing more than 11,000 people in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso since 2012. Such conflict has emerged for a number of reasons, including religious insurgencies and access to water and gra...

[DW] The attack by the Islamist militants also comes just days after a new government was installed in the West African nation following a coup last month.

[RFI] Ibrahim Traoré, the young army captain who led the latest coup in Burkina Faso, became interim president on Friday, vowing to win back territory from jihadists.

[UN News] More than 2.8 million people have been impacted by Nigeria's worst floods in a decade, with 1.3 million displaced and hundreds of lives lost, said the UN chief on Friday, expressing his sadness at the devastation.

[MSF] Since 2018, Burkina Faso has been plagued by violent clashes in the Sahel, which have caused the internal displacement of over 1.5 million people, and has become the epicentre of multiple humanitarian crises.

[RFI] A forum bringing together political parties, social and religious groups and representatives of the security forces got underway in Burkina Faso on Friday, two weeks after a coup. But will it take into account the urgency to help the civilians ...

[Agenzia Fides] Bourzanga -- The city of Bourzanga, in northern Burkina Faso, is difficult to access due to the presence of armed groups along the road. This uncertainty is also affecting an aid program initiated by the Camillian Foundation CADIS Int...

[ISS] After the second coup in nine months, divisions in the army and security forces must be urgently resolved.

[The Conversation Africa] As if fighting in what - for now, at least - appears to be a losing battle in Ukraine weren't enough, the Wagner Group, a private army of Russian mercenaries commanded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Vladimir Puti...

[UN News] The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has called for investigations into deaths and injuries resulting from last week's coup in Burkina Faso, Spokesperson Seif Magango said on Friday.

[Agenzia Fides] Ouagadougou -- "Our response to the Kalashnikov is prayer", said Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, on Sunday, October 2, on the occasion of the opening of the Missionary Month.

[CFR] The latest military coup d'état would seem to be the least of Burkina Faso's problems.

[Agenzia Fides] Ouagadougou -- "The situation in Ouagadougou is calm after the tensions on Friday September 30 and Saturday October 1", Church sources from the capital of Burkina Faso report to Fides, where a coup took place on September 30 (see Fide...

[State Department] The United States is deeply concerned by events in Burkina Faso. We note that for the second time in eight months, military officers have asserted that they have dissolved the government and National Assembly and suspended the cons...