Burkina Faso : News

[IRIN]Ouagadougou -Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. "Even without electricity, having enough water can make you happy," he said. (AllAfrica)

[World Bank]Ouagadougou -The World Bank once again showed its support for film-making by participating for the second time in the Ouagadougou Pan African Film Festival (FESPACO) and awarding the "prix de l'espoir" to the young Burkinese-Guinean film producer, Abraham Fofana, for his documentary "Le bois de la survie." (AllAfrica)

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, welcomes Mali's President Dioncounda Traore upon his arrival at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday May 14, 2013.

I will try another B&W picture from Burkina Faso in West Africa in 1982. These are children I met by chance somewhere in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, which in those days was known as Upper Volta .

[CAF]Burkina Faso defied all odds and finished the 2013 Orange CAF Africa Cup of Nations as losing finalists. Cafonline.com had a short talk with The Stallions Belgian coach Paul Put who is in Cairo to participate in the Symposium for the analysis of the last two editions of AFCON. (AllAfrica)

This is from a small village called Tangora near the town of Banfora in southwestern Burkina Faso.

Vancouver-based explorer TrueGold Mining received a capital shot in the arm and vote of confidence from major Teck Resources following a $10 million non-brokered private placement that saw the larger company subscribe for roughly 30 million shares of the African-focused gold explorer at 33 per share.

[Africa In Fact]Each day scores of lorries laden with tomatoes, onions and other fresh vegetables start the 1,000km trip from landlocked Burkina Faso to Accra, Ghana's capital on the Atlantic coast. (AllAfrica)

Africa is beginning to win its battle against the parasitic river blindness infection, thanks in no small part to the painstaking work of villagers who catch the flies responsible for the disease.

A WOMAN from York has learned first-hand about international poverty by volunteering in one of the poorest countries in the world, writes Kezia Buckley.

According to a report by Agence Ecofin, United Arab Emirates-based telecoms company Etisalat has submitted a request to France's Court of Cassation to review previous decisions related to Telecel, a mobile operator in Burkina Faso.

[State Department]EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -Tunisia and Burkina Faso agreed to launch negotiations soon to grant the Fifth Freedom to Tunisair, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement released Thursday. (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Ouagadougou -National carrier Tunisair inaugurated on Tuesday its sales office in Ouagadougou on the sidelines of its first direct flight to Burkina Faso. (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Ouagadougou -A seminar on partnership opportunities between Tunisia and Burkina Faso was held on Monday as part of the visit of a Tunisian businessmen's delegation to (Burkina Faso) April 14-17 on the inauguration of the new direct flight operated by carrier Tunisair to that city. (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -National carrier Tunisair inaugurated on Sunday evening its first direct flight to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (AllAfrica)

Workers drill into the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge, Kan., using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", to coax out oil and natural gas.

European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, has met today Lamoussa Salif Kabore, Minister for Energy of Burkina Faso, to sign the financing agreement to support the construction of a solar power plant in that country.

The company concentrates on the exploration of gold properties in West Africa. Its activities include acquisition, exploration and development of iron ore and gold assets.

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A Guinean official says that exiled former coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara has arrived on a flight to the southern town of Nzerekore to attend the funeral of his mother.

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[UN News]A United Nations independent expert today called for international support to ward off terrorism from Burkina Faso, stressing it remains vulnerable to radicalization and violent extremists. (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -National flag carrier Tunisair's maiden flight to Burkina Faso "Tunis-Ouagadougou" will take place next April 14. (AllAfrica)

A Guinean official says that exiled former coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara has arrived on a flight to the southern town of Nzerekore to attend the funeral of his mother.

A Casa 212 contracted for Afghanistan drops supplies to paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Nov.

I am from Burkina Faso, West Africa. I had never thought about studying in the United States, but thanks to the Fulbright scholarship, I am two months away from graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in TESOL and a minor in communication.

When Koudougou Koala visited his home village of Burkina Faso in 2011, he was able to distribute boxes of pens, pencils and bookmarks made by children of the Evangelical Free Church in Richvale.

[Deutsche Welle]Burkina Faso lies on the edge of the arid Sahel region.Yet agricultural production has doubled since the 1990s and is set to grow even more as irrigation practices improve. (AllAfrica)

[World Bank]Washington -The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA*) US$70 million grant to Burkina Faso aimed at promoting growth and competitiveness and reducing the vulnerabilities related to both the Malian and global financial crises. (AllAfrica)