The policy change will result in nearly half a million unintended pregnancies and 1,400 preventable maternal deaths in ...

The Community Development and Advocacy Centre (CODAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), is implementing a pilot project ...

USAID lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration froze foreign ...

The Community Development and Advocacy Centre (CODAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is implementing a pilot project dubbed”, Women Against Violent Extremism (WAVE)” in some border districts ...

I fully expect to see an exponential increase in new HIV infections,” one expert said. Women and girls are more susceptible ...

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a practice deemed a gross ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

A socio-anthropologist at the Health Sciences Research Institute and stakeholder engagement lead for Target Malaria Burkina Faso, Dr Léa Paré Toé, has been elevated to the rank of the Knight of the ...

Scores of people on Tuesday rallied in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which is due to take ...

The three military-led West African nations – Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso – have officially withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The regional bloc disclosed ...