The Trump administration is facing another lawsuit — this time from USAID contractors and NGOs that argue that the foreign ...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) suspended its US-funded humanitarian work due to President Trump's executive order to 're-evaluate' foreign aid on Tuesday. Providing essential aid to over 20 ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Ghana's decision to grant prima facie refugee status to forcibly displaced Burkinabe asylum seekers. This significant move immediately benefits thousands of ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

Burkina Faso is leaving the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to join counterterrorism forces with Niger and Mali. The junta ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Since 2016, there have been more than 230 terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which threatens to destabilize the landlocked West African nation. In the north of the country, al-Qaeda in the Islamic ...