Conflict. Climate shock. Water scarcity and rising food insecurity. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso, a small, landlocked country in the Central Sahel region of West Africa, is one of the ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts ...

Grave threats to security and survival are mounting in the central Sahel region of Africa. In a new Child Alert report, UNICEF explains the urgent humanitarian needs of already vulnerable children and ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Friday issued a report about the well-being of children in the central Sahel Region. The report claims that 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are in ...

New data from UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed worsening nutritional situation for children in Burkina Faso, with more than 535,000 children under the age of five suffering from acute ...

Over the past four years, the number of school closures due to insecurity has almost doubled, reaching more than 13,200 closed schools in eight countries of the region1. The education of 2.5 million ...

In the major cities of Central Sahel countries, such as Niamey, Bamako, and Ouagadougou, children are forced to beg on the ...