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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced outrage after Burkina Faso's presidential guard detained the country's interim president and prime minister, and demanded their immediate release.

• 17 сентября 2015, 14:54

The crisis in Burkina Faso deepened after the opposition stormed out of talks on a transition government at the inclusion of supporters of deposed president Blaise Compaore.

• 06 ноября 2014, 13:52

The European Union called on the Burkina Faso military to respect the fundamental rights of the people, including to peaceful protest.

• 03 ноября 2014, 11:31

Gains in fighting malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have left the highest risk for the disease concentrated in 10 countries.

• 20 февраля 2014, 09:59

The first ladies of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso on Thursday sealed an agreement to fight the growing child trafficking trade between the two west African nations.

• 18 октября 2013, 12:23

As many as 10.5 million children worldwide work as domestic servants, in what can be hazardous and even slave-like conditions.

• 13 июня 2013, 10:26

For the many Malians who have fled to Burkina Faso in recent days, facing life in a refugee camp won out over the horrors of war, after already suffering through occupation by hardline Islamist rebels.

• 22 января 2013, 19:13

A coalition of Malian political parties and a citizen's association based in the Islamist-occupied north on Sunday objected to Algeria and Burkina Faso's role in mediating their country's crisis.

• 27 ноября 2012, 10:55

Burkina Faso led efforts Sunday to persuade one of the armed Islamist groups controlling northern Mali to cut ties with Al-Qaeda as a west African military intervention looms to end the crisis.

• 06 ноября 2012, 10:09