Sudan have celebrated their biggest football achievement in over 40 years when they nabbed a spot in the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals.
Burkina Faso must stop conceding soft goals if they are to have any hope of defeating Côte d’Ivoire and getting their Afcon campaign back on track.
Côte d’Ivoire has begun its quest for a second Afcon title with a 1-0 victory over Sudan, while over in Group B, Angola has beaten Burkina Faso 2-1.
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/ 10 January 2012
Burkina Faso will be playing in the Africa Cup of Nations after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Namibia’s appeal against Herve Zengue.
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/ 29 December 2011
The first African football drama of 2012 will unfold as Namibia continues a battle to get Burkina Faso kicked out of the upcoming Cup of Nations.
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/ 30 October 2011
The Africa Cup of Nations’ main contenders Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana avoided each other and the likes of Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia in a kind draw.
The struggle for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations places reaches a climax this weekend with 21 countries chasing 10 tickets to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Gaddafi is on the run. But nobody seems to know where he is, after Niger denied he was in the country, and Burkina Faso said he was not welcome there.
Midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi will miss South Africa’s friendly against Burkina Faso in Johannesburg on Wednesday night because he is stuck in England.
The ministry of education in Burkina Faso agreed to meet some of the demands of striking teachers after thousands of pupils demonstrated.
Soldiers from Burkina Faso’s second largest military base took to the streets of the country’s economic capital on Tuesday night.
Four students were injured during a protest on Friday, three by bullets, as Burkina Faso police opened fire to disperse the youths.
A wave of popular anger spread in Burkina Faso on Thursday as police followed the army in staging a mutiny.
President Blaise Compaore appointed a former ambassador to France as the new prime minister, hoping to restore stability after violent protests.
A mutiny in Burkina Faso spread on Monday as police joined soldiers on a rampage in a northern town, and students staged violent protests in the west.
Burkina Faso’s president, facing a military mutiny, strove to reassert his authority on Friday after mass protests and a night when soldiers ran riot.
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/ 22 November 2010
Burkina Faso voted on Sunday in a presidential poll, which appeared to generate little enthusiasm and was expected to keep Blaise Compaore in power.
On his regular Book Safari, David L Smith looks at <em>The Democratic King</em>, a novel by a policeman from Burkina Faso about his ideal Africa.
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/ 20 January 2010
Ghana have escaped blushes by squeezing into the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Burkina Faso on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2010
Ghana suffered a blow to their hopes of qualifying for the Afcon quarterfinals when Michael Essien was ruled out of the game against Burkina Faso.
A film set in Ethiopia about a bloodthirsty regime under has won best movie award at Africa’s top film festival.
Plans to dig West Africa’s first zinc mine in impoverished Burkina Faso have been scrapped due to funding problems linked to depressed zinc prices.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several towns in Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, on Wednesday to protest the rising cost of living as part of a three-day general strike. In the capital, Ouagadougou, demonstrators started marching from the headquarters of the main unions and the city centre.
A coalition of civil society organisations that on Saturday mobilised several thousand people to take to the streets of Ouagadougou and other towns and cities in Burkina Faso has threatened a nationwide strike if the government does not find a way to lower prices.
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/ 26 February 2008
World economic growth could miss the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) forecast of 4,1% this year if United States and European banks disclose more major losses on the subprime market, the head of the IMF said on Monday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that emerging economies would not escape the effects of the slowdown in rich countries.
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/ 25 February 2008
Rapid economic growth rates in Africa are at risk from a global downturn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told West African leaders on Monday. The IMF has cut its 2008 global growth projection to 4,1%, down from 4,9% last year, blaming the weak outlook in the United States and Europe.
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/ 9 December 2007
The growing promotion of environmentally-friendly biofuels is raising questions for Africa: Are such fuels a threat to food security or a golden opportunity to cut down on fossil fuel bills? About 300 experts gathered earlier this month in the capital of the non-oil producing West African nation of Burkina Faso to debate the pros and cons of biofuel generation on the continent.
After ”white gold” — cotton — failed to live up to expectations in recent years, the impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso has turned its energy to digging for real gold. To make up for low prices on the cotton market that have hit its top export earner, Burkina Faso has relaunched its large-scale mining sector.
Nigerian director Newton Aduaka lifted the top prize at Africa’s most prestigious film festival for Ezra, the tale of a child soldier who struggles to readapt after Sierra Leone’s civil war. Aduaka was awarded the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the closing ceremony of the Fespaco film festival in Ouagadougou on Saturday.
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/ 23 February 2007
Africa’s biggest film festival opens on Saturday in the capital of Burkina Faso hoping for a revival of the continent’s ailing cinema industry. The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, or Fespaco, which runs from February 24 to March 3, is a two-yearly event gathering more than 3 000 film types from across the continent.
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/ 20 January 2007
West Africa plans to ask the European Union for a two-year delay to a planned economic partnership agreement (EPA), leaders said at a summit on Friday, but the EU’s executive Commission ruled out a postponement. Brussels hopes to negotiate far-reaching EPAs with six regions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to come into force by January 1 2008.
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/ 10 January 2007
For Mady Daboné, Europe beckons. ”Staying here … is misery,” says the 30-year-old from the village of Begdo in eastern Burkina Faso, adding that several of his friends are already abroad. ”I have about 20 of them in Italy and Spain. They have all done well, even though they suffered at the beginning.”