The government of Burkina Faso has rolled out plans to distribute birth certificates to more than five million people. The year-long identification campaign will benefit mostly women and children. The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF believes the campaign will help enforce anti-trafficking laws and boost the fight against child marriages. Andre Dembele, the head of the [...]

“Fantan Fanga” is one of 300 films featuring at the ongoing Panafrican festival of cinema and television (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso. Fantan Fanga, directed by Malian directors Adama Drabo and Ladji Diakite, highlights the treatment of Albinos in Africa.

Officials in Burkina Faso are seeking new measures to control the country’s expanding population. Figures in 2006 showed it had almost tripled in 30 years. Louis Marie Dakuyo, a demographer with the government’s National Commission on Population told IRIN news the population size was adding to development challenges. A UN report also said social [...]

An assessment of the investment climate in Burkina Faso completed in 2005- 2006 by the World Bank concluded that the country’s business climate was the least favourable of all African countries. Within the same year, the Bank and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Doing Business Report, a report that ranks 181 countries in the ease of [...]