Terrorist activity is surging in Africa’s volatile Sahel region, making life more difficult and dangerous for women and girls, senior U.N. officials said Thursday. Over the past decade, the arid ...

Risks to women and girls across this vast region are severe and systemic, as political instability, environmental collapse ...

Five African women are leading research and community-focused initiatives aimed at solving some of Africa’s biggest ...

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 60 women and girls who had been abducted last week in the West African nation of Burkina Faso were freed on Friday, the national broadcaster said. The kidnappings took ...

Rabat - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed four Moroccan officials to oversee the match between the ...

Jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has overrun Burkina Faso, killing thousands and displacing nearly 2 million people in the West African nation. The failure of ...

Burkina Faso authorities said about 50 women were kidnapped on Jan. 12 and 13 in Arbinda district, part of the restive Soum province -- a new tactic by Islamist insurgents whose brutal attacks ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Burkina Faso launched the third phase of the incubator program of ...

Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said on Friday.

Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state ...

Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Monday.

Still, Traore is upbeat about her country’s prospects. “The world has painted Burkina Faso as a red country. It’s dangerous to come to my country, as they say,” she told The Associated Press.