[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] The West African sub-region at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert has recently attracted significant attention. The main reasons have been an increase in violent extremism and what appear to be manifestations of democrat...

[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...

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