As of January, Burkina Faso owed the International Monetary Fund, IMF, $328,394,000 after repaying $1.8 million the previous year. The Sahelian nation ranked 182 out of 185 poorest countries in ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an annual per capita income of less than $720. The country faces serious underdevelopment, with high population growth and low education ...

And the social and economic impact of the coronavirus could wipe out five years of development progress in all the Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad). Nevertheless, over ...

Even when compared with other developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Burkina Faso’s some 15 million people have very poor health and economic opportunities and outcomes. Close to 50 percent of ...