Unable to go to church: Burkina Faso’s Christians living under threat of attacks
TONNY ONYULO reports on attacks from Islamist extremist groups have left thousands of Christians living in fear and skipping church services for fear of being murdered or kidnapped…
Burkina Faso Muslims and Christians back unity amid insurgency
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Scores of young Burkinabe Muslims and Christians gathered in Ouagadougou’s public square as the sun set on Friday to break fast together, promoting religious tolerance during Ramadan and Lent as Burkina Faso grapples with a violent insurgency. Organised by a local interfaith youth group, the event saw Muslims and Christians sharing food […]
West Africa bloc mediator “satisfied” after meeting Burkina Faso new military leader
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters The mediator sent to Burkina Faso by West Africa’s main political and economic bloc ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou, on Tuesday said he was satisfied by a meeting with the country’s new military leader Ibrahim Traore. Issoufou added that the 15-member bloc would continue accompanying Burkina Faso’s transition to constitutional rule after the country […]
Thousands protest in Burkina Faso over jihadist attacks
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday to call for a tougher government response to a wave of jihadist attacks that has destabilised the West African country in recent years. Some had travelled hundreds of kilometres to attend the opposition-led demonstration in Ouagadougou, where protesters waved the red […]
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK: FIVE DAYS OF WORSHIP THAT SET A VIRUS “TIME BOMB” IN FRANCE
TANGI SALAUN, of Reuters, reports on how a church gathering in Mulhouse, France, was at the centre of an outbreak of COVID-19 in France – and beyond…
1000 days since kidnap of 84 year old doctor in Burkina Faso: family plea for freedom
World Watch Monitor It’s more than 1,000 days now since an Australian doctor, Ken Elliott, was kidnapped in Djibo, Burkina Faso, on 15th January, 2016. His abduction was claimed by the ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Dubbed ‘the Doctor of the Poor’, Dr Elliott was providing free treatment […]
Second Christian leader in two weeks kidnapped in Burkina Faso
World Watch Monitor A Christian pastor and three members of his family have been kidnapped in Burkina Faso’s north-eastern province of Soum, two weeks after the kidnapping of another Christian leader and his wife. Pierre Boena, a pastor with an Assembly of God church, was kidnapped during the evening of Sunday, 3rd June. in his […]
Hunger and conflict push northern Burkina Faso into crisis
Thomson Reuters Foundation Food shortages and a jihadist uprising in northern Burkina Faso risk plunging the region into a humanitarian crisis if urgent action is not taken, aid agencies said last week. Much of West Africa’s Sahel, a semi-arid belt below the Sahara, is facing its worst hunger in years after erratic rains caused little […]
Two years on, thousands in Burkina Faso call for release of ‘doctor of the poor’
World Watch Monitor Ken Elliott. PICTURE: Via Facebook Thousands took to the streets of Djibo, a northern town in Burkina Faso, on Monday to call for the government to secure the release of an Australian doctor, Ken Elliott, kidnapped two years ago. The abduction was claimed by the ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a branch of Al-Qaeda in […]