150 journalists from the African continent met in the capital city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 11 April 2007, in the second International...

Cote d’Ivoire’s nascent peace plan moved closer towards changing the situation on the ground on Wednesday as the government, rival armed groups and...

Cote d’Ivoire’s efforts to take control of its peace process took a step forward on Wednesday as the United Nations Security Council endorsed a...

Relations between Cote d’Ivoire’s government and the largest rebel group in the country took a major step forward on Tuesday when the two sides...

Health authorities in Burkina Faso have launched a mass vaccination campaign in the capital, Ouagadougou, to combat a rapidly spreading meningitis...

Burkina Faso is set to receive 3.3 million vaccines against bacterial meningitis to help stem an epidemic currently sweeping the country. The...

Despite recent appeals for assistance, health authorities in Burkina Faso say they still lack vaccines to help stem a meningitis epidemic that has...

Burkinabe songstress Pyane Djire knows that the power of a song is in the story that it tells and as an HIV-positive woman, she is using her music to...

President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces rebel leader Guillaume Soro have signed a peace agreement for Côte d’Ivoire aimed at ending a more than...

Every year between December and June winds combined with seasonal respiratory infections trigger outbreaks of deadly meningitis throughout West...