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A slow and insufficient humanitarian response is forcing people to choose between violence or hunger, the Norwegian Refugee Council has warned.
The triple jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango won Thursday 5 August in Tokyo the first ever Olympic medal for his country.
At least thirty people were killed Monday in the east of the country in a fresh attack blamed on jihadists.
An attack has targeted an anti-poaching unit on the Fada-Pama road in Burkina Faso’s eastern province of Gourma, according to security sources.
Ousted Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré has been indicted over the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara.
Outgoing president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, with 57.87 percent of the vote, is the winner of the November 22 presidential election, according to the provisional results announced Thursday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).
The Burkinabe government is showing its “firmness” after a thinly veiled threat from a section of the opposition that participated in the legislative and presidential elections of November 22.
In the wake of the combined (presidential and legislative) ballot, suspicions of fraud are likely to shatter the agreement signed by the various actors with a view to holding peaceful elections.
Twelve contenders will try, on November 22, to beat Roch Marc Christian Kabore who is seeking a second presidential term.
In Burkina Faso, also known as the ‘Land of Men of Integrity’, the security situation has deteriorated significantly in recent years to the point that the November 22 presidential and legislative elections will not be held across the country.