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Direct climate financing to benefit vulnerable communities

Kuensel 21 Sep 2024
Bhutan is one of the front-runner countries in LIFE-AR’s inaugural cohort 2020, alongside Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Malawi, and Uganda, aiming to transform how climate finance for adaptation is accessed, managed, and targeted.
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Burkina Faso needs aid and violence protection for 6.3 mln people: UN

Xinhua 28 Jun 2024
UNITED NATIONS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso faces an unprecedented crisis with 6.3 million people needing protection from deadly violence and aid to get back on their feet, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
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Burkina Faso: Number of Children Facing Emergency Hunger Levels set to Surge Fivefold as Rainy ...

Capital Ethiopia 13 May 2024
The number of children in Burkina Faso facing emergency levels of hunger looks set to surge fivefold to about 210,000 by the middle of this year without an urgent injection of food assistance, said Save the Children.
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Scholarships fuel success for returning adult students

Madison 12 May 2024
The eldest of 11 siblings, Zalissa Zongo Kafando embarked on a life-changing journey in 2018. Fleeing the increasing political instability of Burkina Faso, West Africa, she sought a better life for herself and her children.
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Studies Show Human Activity Causes Deadly Heat Waves in West Africa, the Sahel

Foroyaa 25 Apr 2024
To investigate hot night time temperatures, which can be dangerous when the human body cannot rest and recover, the researchers also analysed the five-day average of minimum temperatures for the Mali and Burkina Faso regions,” they added.
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Burkina Faso: Army Massacres 223 Villagers

Human Rights Watch 25 Apr 2024
Burkina Faso is a state party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which provide for the right to life and prohibit extrajudicial executions ... Armed Conflict in Burkina Faso.
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Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds

The Observer 18 Apr 2024
A market trader in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, last month ... Mali and Burkina Faso would normally expect such protracted high daytime temperatures around once in every 200 years.
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Climate change: Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming

RNZ 18 Apr 2024
The heat was most strongly felt in the southern regions of Mali and Burkina Faso ... According to the study, climate change meant temperatures were up to 1.5C warmer than normal in Mali and Burkina Faso, ...
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Deadly African Heatwave “Impossible” Without Climate Change, Claims BBC

The Daily Sceptic 18 Apr 2024
The heat was most strongly felt in the southern regions of Mali and Burkina Faso ... said Kiswendsida Guigma, a climate scientist at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in Burkina Faso.
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Burkinabe inventor makes new machines from old parts

Voa News 09 Apr 2024
In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, inventor Newlove Kushiator is trying to make life easier for his fellow citizens by creating all kinds of machines from castoff parts. VOA’s Gildas Da has this story from Ouagadougou, and Jackson Mvunganyi narrates ... .
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Actually, It’s OK to Slouch

Time 08 Apr 2024
... in life, she documented the spinal health of indigenous peoples in Burkina Faso and Ecuador, photographing potters, basket makers, weavers, and head-carriers whom she admired for their ideal postures.
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SUE REID: The criminal asylum seekers who

The Daily Mail 06 Apr 2024
He was jailed for life ... Awa Zongo, 29, from Burkina Faso, was sentenced to life in prison in 2020 after she stabbed her housemate 30 times in the neck in Hindley Green, Wigan ... He was sentenced to a whole-life order.
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Rejoice and stand tall, women of the world

Republican American 08 Mar 2024
It is an official holiday in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the only one in the Americas. Like in other aspects of life, social media plays an ...
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International Women's Day is a celebration and call to action

The Star Democrat 08 Mar 2024
It is an official holiday in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the only one in the Americas. Like in other aspects of life, social media plays an ...
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International Women's Day is a celebration and call to action. Beware the flowers and candy.

Lockport Union-Sun 08 Mar 2024
It is an official holiday in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the only one in the Americas. Like in other aspects of life, social media plays an ...

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