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Anta Guissé swearing in

Representing an African Revolutionary: French Lawyer Defends Thomas Sankara in Assassination Trial

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Anta Guissé has spent a large part of her 20-year career defending people accused of war crimes in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia and the Central African Republic before United Nations-backed international tribunals and the International Criminal …
Monique Yéli Kam

The Sole Woman Running for President of Burkina Faso Says: ‘I Will Win’

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Monique Yéli Kam’s war room is not a typical campaign headquarters for a national presidential candidate. A dusty white marquis stands next to stacked blue chairs fanning out to a balcony that leads to a room …

In Burkina Faso, the Shame of Unwed Motherhood Never Leaves

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — A white van roams the streets of the capital here every Wednesday morning to help young women and girls who may be homeless or destitute to take them to a health clinic on the outskirts of …

A street child crying consoled by his friend in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

The ‘Children of Nobody’: Street Kids in West Africa

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Tasséré Ouedraogo, 33, appears to have spent his childhood comfortably, as reflected in the colorful tailor-made suit he wears as an adult. Yet, from age 11 to 16, he was a bakroman, or street child, in …

Attacks in West Africa Show Regional Security Reliance on France and US

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — It was about 7:30 p.m. when the meeting began on the fourth floor of the Splendid Hotel here on Jan. 15 in this capital city. Fourteen people were gathered to discuss the launching of a humanitarian …

Tulinabo Mushingi, center, the US ambassador to Burkina Faso

In Burkina Faso, a US Ambassador Wins Over a Slice of Francophone West Africa

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Nowhere can the positive presence of the United States in West Africa be more obvious than in the quiet, dusty nation of Burkina Faso, a mostly rural state surrounded by six other countries of ranging stability: …

These Burkina Faso voters leave a polling station

Women Compete in Burkina Faso’s Presidential Contest, a First for the Nation

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — This small but determined West African country voted on Sunday in its first presidential election since its last president, Blaise Compaoré, was ousted in October 2014. He had ruled the country for 27 years and was …

Burkina Faso’s People, Opposing an Autocrat, Feel Let Down by the UN

The fast-moving people-power coup that ousted a longtime leader of the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso took not only powerful nations and international institutions by surprise — including the United Nations, France, the United States, the African Union …

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