Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

People vaccinated against meningitis are supposed to have protection for three years but health officials have announced that meningitis epidemics...

Workers from the public and private sectors throughout the country launched a two-day strike on 8 April to protest high living costs and demand...

Donors announced in March that they will invest US $1.2 billion into Burkina Faso’s water sector, to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

A coalition of civil society organisations that on Saturday mobilised several thousand people to take to the streets of Ouagadougou and other towns...

Some 184 people have been imprisoned in Burkina Faso over the last fortnight, among them Thibault Nana, the leader of a small opposition party who is...

A newly formed coalition against the cost of living formed by workers’ unions, consumer associations and human rights groups in Burkina Faso is...

A new low-cost and highly effective meningitis vaccine will be introduced in 2009 as trials in West Africa proved successful, the head of the project...

One in five pharmaceutical drugs bought in Ouagadougou is counterfeit and sold on the street with no prescription and no expiry date, according to...

Riots over the cost of living hit three major towns in Burkina Faso this week, a situation which has raised fears among some observers about the...

Pharmaceutical companies have pledged some US$450 million worth of medicines to Burkina Faso to fight “neglected” diseases that blind or otherwise...