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West African leaders lift economic and financial sanctions on Mali

YoopyaJuly 4, 2022April 6, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 4, 2022April 6, 20230

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers proposed...

Africa Education News

Diébédo Francis Kéré talk-show at TED about how to build with clay … and community (Video)

YoopyaMarch 24, 2022June 30, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 24, 2022June 30, 20230

Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in...

Africa News World

When conditions are right, Burkina Faso will return to constitutional order, the military leader says

YoopyaJanuary 27, 2022June 30, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 27, 2022June 30, 20230

Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, Burkina Faso’s new military leader, said his country will return to constitutional order once the conditions are right. On Monday, Dambiba...

Africa News World

Key defendant in Burkina’s Sankara trial pleads not guilty

YoopyaNovember 9, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 9, 2021June 13, 20230

General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the...

Africa Entertainment News

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOctober 16, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 16, 2021June 13, 20230

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation...

Africa News World

Burkina Faso starts trial on killing of ex-leader Sankara

YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 20230

A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential leftist...

Africa News World

After 34 years, Sankara murder trial begins in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 20230

The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was...

Africa News World

Mapping the contours of Jihadist groups in the Sahel

YoopyaSeptember 25, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 25, 2021June 13, 20230

The Sahel region, an area covering 3 million sq km, has been a hotbed of Islamic Jihadi groups in recent years. Today, the region has...

Africa News

Burkina Faso: Thousands protest over jihadist attacks

YoopyaJuly 3, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 3, 2021June 13, 20230

Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday to call for a tougher government response to a wave of jihadist attacks that...

Africa News World

Africa’s weak health systems face escalating virus peril

YoopyaMarch 24, 2020June 14, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 24, 2020June 14, 20230

Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it has few means to protect itself as a feared coronavirus tsunami...

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