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You were aware that María had been working for some time on composing someone else’s eulogy. Neither of us, though, could ever have imagined that she would have to write yours first.

The beginning of the school year in Burkina Faso, which takes place in October, is always accompanied by an increase in requests for healthcare from the children in our projects. This healthcare is part of the overall personalized care that FAR offers to each beneficiary. However, this year, a deadly dengue epidemic has further complicated a situation already complicated by malaria

＜ Back Hadaré is not the first FAR beneficiary to wind up in prison, and I'm afraid he won't be the last, either. Such is the reality here, despite the FAR's direct efforts to protect vulnerable young people from the rings of crime, drugs, and prostitution typical in...

Unfortunately, this post does not require much introduction. As you will see, it is a translation of the latest report from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which is an independent humanitarian organization that aids displaced people (people forced to flee their homes). For the first time, Burkina tops the list of the most neglected displacement crises in the world.

The maelstrom of everyday life, that frenetic rhythm, which, thanks to a cup of coffee, goes from 0 to 1,000 the second the alarm clock rings each morning, makes it difficult for me to be aware of the reality that surrounds me. I can’t pretend I don’t often think it’s better that way. Yet it is a double-edged sword. It can distort my perception of what actually happens in this environment – a perception crucial to a healthy balance between the rational and the emotional. Stopping to observe and to put in writing a day in the life of the Burkinabé woman reconnects me with the essence of this wonderful land and its women

Children orphaned by living parents – the vast majority of children benefiting from FAR projects – not only live in extreme need, but also have to deal with the deep emotional wounds of abandonment

“The pigs wanted to eat my father, so I risked my life hiding in the caves so I could bury him overnight.” This is the terrible story to which we woke up today, from a survivor of the last terrorist massacre in a small village in the community of Partiaga, Eastern region, bordering Niger and Benin.

What might appear to be a wager on the outcome of a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match (assuming that Russia is readmitted after having been expelled from the Qatar World Cup for invading Ukraine) is actually a metaphor for Russia’s potential victory over France in the fight for first place in ‘bilateral’ cooperation with Burkina Faso and other Sahel countries.

I have always been fonder of Parcheesi than of ‘The Goose’ (the popular Spanish board game ‘La Oca’). Yet, while both games could serve as a simile for Burkina’s current situation after its 10th coup d’état this weekend, I’d relate it to the experience of landing on square 58 (the skull) in ‘La Oca’, which sends you all the way back to square one.