Burkina Faso, for all of its risk from disease, drought, and floods, had been relatively stable. The threat of terrorism is likely to restrict the work of those in country and limit the sending of ...

Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries, has been wracked by violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people ...

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts and military coups. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in 1960.

Burkina Faso has an outstanding external debt of at least $10 billion. As of January, Burkina Faso owed the International Monetary Fund, IMF, $328,394,000 after repaying $1.8 million the previous ...

Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Current ...

Later-than-normal rainfall in Burkina Faso, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cotton producer, caused delays in planting seeds for the 2011-12 harvest in two of the main growing regions.

Burkina Faso is poor even by West African standards. Although it has gold reserves, political instability and inequality mean the UN has rated the country the third poorest in the world.

Landlocked Burkina Faso ranks 181 out of 187 countries in the U.N. Human Development Index, and remains one of the world's poorest nations. RESTORATION OF ARABLE LAND ...

Burkina Faso, the small West African state considered the world's third-poorest country, last week launched the Burkina Open Data Initiative, making data from the country's ministries available to ...

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts and military coups. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in ...

LONDON, Oct 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over the last three decades, Burkina Faso's poorest farmers have produced food for half a million people by restoring some 300,000 hectares of degraded ...