burkina faso

1 min read 2022-05-18 20:00:00

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press: Friday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee (The Conversation, April

4 min read 2022-04-29 15:55:32

On April 6, 2022, a military tribunal in Burkina Faso found 11 men, including the former president, Blaise Compaoré, guilty of “attacks on state

1 min read 2022-04-27 02:30:00

Blog posts & press: How a small team of journalists report on one of the biggest refugee camps on earth (Reuters Institute, April 2022) [text]

3 min read 2022-04-13 16:28:11

Like most of us, former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré was not present in the courtroom when his sentence was read. For the past eight

1 min read 2022-04-06 20:00:00

Blog posts & press: "Burkina Faso Displacement Spikes as Ukraine Takes Aid Toll," VOA News, 10 March 2022 [text] Displacement

8 min read 2022-03-29 20:10:28

ROAPE’s Bettina Engels argues that the coup in January 2022 in Burkina Faso was not a surprise. Frustration and anger within the state security

8 min read 2022-03-29 20:10:28

ROAPE’s Bettina Engels argues that the coup in January 2022 in Burkina Faso was not a surprise. Frustration and anger within the state security

4 min read 2022-03-22 13:50:17

Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded architecture’s highest international honour, the

3 min read 2022-03-17 13:52:59

On 25 February, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Electoral Bill into law, paving the way for federal and state elections on 25

1 min read 2022-03-11 04:50:16

Photo: ComNav Line of sight to GNSS satellites is sometimes obscured by buildings and trees, which also cause multipath, as does nearby water. These

14 min read 2022-03-08 18:00:51

West Africa is in the grip of a wave of coups, popular protests and fierce geopolitical struggles. Amy Niang argues that declining western hegemony

14 min read 2022-03-08 18:00:51

West Africa is in the grip of a wave of coups, popular protests and fierce geopolitical struggles. Amy Niang argues that declining western hegemony

3 min read 2022-03-08 16:30:14

Burkina Faso is a former French colony in the Sahel region of Africa. Burkina Faso has an estimated population of 21 million people. The country

4 min read 2022-02-17 18:13:08

The African Union should pursue a strategy to ensure member states follow a set of uniform principles to neutralise financial crime and build more

8 min read 2022-02-14 21:24:00

By Farooq Bhai in collaboration with Stijn Mitzer The coronavirus pandemic (COVID) has engulfed the nations of the world. Globally, COVID has