As 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund, to boost the humanitarian response across four (...)
Mali's decision on 15 May to withdraw from the G5-Sahel group and its Joint Force is "unfortunate" and "regrettable", a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, as she urged countries in the region to redouble efforts (...)
The number of people in need has risen by around 10 percent this year so far, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief said on Thursday.
Martin Griffiths, who is also the Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that around 303 million living in 69 countries, (...)
Republic of Burkina Faso's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation and Burkina Faso's expatriates abroad Olivia Rwamba announced her country's full support for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's bid to host the Expo 2030 in Riyadh.
In a (...)
President Pall-Henry Sandaogo Damiba of the Republic of Burkina Faso received at the presidential palace in Ouagadougou today Advisor at the Saudi Royal Court Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan, and his accompanying delegation.
During the meeting, Advisor (...)
Burkina Faso's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation held yesterday, a meeting with the Saudi Ambassador to the Republic of Burkina Faso Fahd bin Abdurrahman Al-Dosari.
During the meeting, they discussed cooperation relations between (...)
While reported COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, Omicron sub-variants are driving an increase in the Americas and Africa, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, noting the disparity between profits being (...)
The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSrelief) Sunday signed a joint agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to promote radio education for children affected by the conflict in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
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King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSrelief) yesterday signed a joint agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to promote radio education for children affected by the conflict in the Republic of Burkina Faso. The (...)
Three weeks have passed since some 500 people were allegedly summarily executed in Moura, a village in central Mali — and UN investigators have yet to be granted access, the UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Wednesday.
According to reports, Malian (...)
The conflict in Ukraine is driving up global food and fuel prices which is affecting efforts to feed millions in West Africa, where hunger levels have reached a 10-year high, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Thursday.
Operational costs for (...)
When people took to the streets in Egypt in 2011, protesters chanted about freedom and social justice — but also bread. The cost of pantry staples had jumped because of the skyrocketing price of goods like wheat, stoking fury with President Hosni (...)
An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa's Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.
The West and Central Africa Nutrition working (...)
As the Sahel region "stares down a horrendous food crisis", the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has "increased almost tenfold" over the past three years and "displacement by (...)
The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group - known officially as Daesh - and its affiliates, remains a "long-term game" for which there are "no quick fixes," the UN counter-terrorism chief told the (...)
The African Union (AU) summit kicked off in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on Saturday, with peace, security and the ramifications of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic topping the agenda.
The agenda of the two-day African gathering also (...)
For the last three years, a retired cook in northern Burkina Faso has been providing shelter for people displaced by armed attacks in the country, where the security situation continues to deteriorate.
Recent unrest in the capital Ouagadougou (...)
Mali's military leaders are expelling the French ambassador over what they called "outrageous" comments made by the French foreign minister about the transitional government.
France said it was recalling Joel Meyer, who was given 72 hours to (...)
A UN envoy will travel to Burkina Faso over the weekend on a "good offices mission" in the wake of the military coup last Sunday.
The visit by Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, was (...)
"Needs are growing faster than generosity" in the central Sahel, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told a group of senior officials on Thursday, meeting to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation across the vast African (...)
Following Sunday's coup in Burkina Faso carried out by sections of the armed forces, the United Nations' Secretary-General is following the developments in the landlocked West African nation with deep concern.
In a statement released by his (...)
The military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré.
The announcement was made on state television by an army officer, who cited the deteriorating security situation for the military takeover.
Mr Kaboré had (...)
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet deeply deplores this week's military takeover in Burkina Faso, her office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
OHCHR has called for a swift return to constitutional order and urged the army to immediately release (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as part of its wide humanitarian and aid efforts around the world, has contributed to supporting the educational sectors in the needy and affected countries, out of its belief in the importance of this sector in the (...)
Millions of hectares of farmland are lost to the desert each year in Africa's Sahel region, but the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is showing that traditional knowledge, combined with the latest technology, can turn arid ground back into (...)
