At the 48th session of the CAMES Interafrican Advisory Committees, held in Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso ranked first among member countries for the second year in a row, with 412 teachers and researchers admitted out of 430 applications (95.81% success rate).
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of Faso, inaugurated a lecture hall complex at Nazi Boni University, including a 1,200-seat amphitheatre, four mini-amphitheatres and six laboratories. It is part of the Presidential Initiative for Quality Education for All (IPEQ), which plans 40 such complexes.
More than 4.75 million children aged 3 to 59 months received preventive malaria treatment during the second 2026 round of the seasonal malaria chemoprevention plus (SMC+) campaign, held from 23 to 26 July across Burkina Faso's 70 health districts. Door-to-door delivery reached 91% of treated…
Captain Ibrahim Traoré inaugurated an amphitheatre complex at Nazi-Boni University in Bobo-Dioulasso, built under the IPEQ initiative. The main amphitheatre seats 1,201 people, and he announced the upcoming construction of a tannery factory.
The new AES national identity card, modernised and digitised, is drawing heavy crowds at issuing centres in Ouagadougou. Applicants queue from dawn, and the article proposes ways to cut waiting times, such as online appointment booking.
Video published by RTB (Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina) on 11 September 2026.
Artist Sié Decor has been chosen to paint the murals along Burkina Avenue in Ouagadougou, 1.5 km long. Launched on 12 August 2026, the project, currently in its pilot phase, aims to showcase the cultural identities of Burkina Faso's 17 regions.
Video published by RTB (Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina) on 11 September 2026.
Burkina Faso ranks first in CAMES for the second consecutive year, with a 95.81% success rate (412 of 430 applications approved) at the 48th session held in Equatorial Guinea. The higher education minister presented the results to the Council of Ministers.
The Council of Ministers on 10 September 2026 adopted a draft decree granting Les Entrepôts Bakabe (LEB)-SARL the conventional regime of the Investment Code. The company commits to invest about 11 billion FCFA in a warehouse zone at PK20 on the RN1 in N'Dounga (Tillabéri), with 108 permanent jobs…
Three years of research involving 1,748 producers in Burkina Faso show that knowledge of agricultural solar pumps alone does not drive their adoption. Cost, scarce groundwater and limited awareness are the main obstacles, and authorities are calling for financing and local maintenance solutions.
From 14 September 2026, the Minister of State for Agriculture, Water, Animal and Fisheries Resources begins a tour of the provinces to review the 2026-2027 agro-pastoral and fisheries season. He will also convey a message from the President of Faso to rural stakeholders.
The Nigerien Council of Ministers adopted two draft texts: an ordinance on online press and a decree on foreign correspondents and media outlets. The texts give a larger role to the National Communication Observatory.
This study examines how Burkina Faso's authorities made decisions on COVID-19 in 2020 while knowledge was incomplete. It shows that initial measures, inspired by WHO recommendations, were adjusted in response to economic consequences and negotiations with affected groups.
The Council of Ministers of Niger adopted a draft decree granting NIPHARMEDIC SA the benefits of the conventional regime of the Investment Code. The company commits to invest over 22 billion FCFA and create 161 permanent jobs to manufacture pharmaceutical products in Niamey.
President of Faso Captain Ibrahim Traoré inaugurated a new lecture hall complex at Nazi-Boni University, built under the IPEQ initiative. It includes a 1,200-seat amphitheatre, four mini-amphitheatres and six laboratories.
At the inauguration of an amphitheatre complex at Nazi Boni University in Bobo-Dioulasso, President Ibrahim Traoré spoke with students about the vision of the Popular Progressive Revolution, industrialisation and training in technical fields.
According to official figures published in Rabat, Morocco says it prevented 73,640 attempted irregular emigrations in 2025 and dismantled more than 300 migrant smuggling networks. Rabat sees this as a decline in flows, while migration routes are shifting.
In Bobo-Dioulasso, young welder Abdoulaye Soma builds bicycles under the "Wéfo" brand in his workshop in the Belle Ville district. The director general of the FBDES "Tõogo", Ahmadé Nour Guenda, visited his workshop on 9 September 2026.
Fecafoot president Samuel Eto'o is accused by former federation officials of having received more than €567,000 paid by Russia after a friendly match in October 2023. He firmly denies the allegations.
