Description of the Event Date when the trigger was met 2024-03-05 What happened, where and when? Since the introduction of the second dose of the measles-rubella (MR2) vaccine into routine...
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UNHCR Burkina Faso - Fact Sheet, 1 January–29 February2024
Burkina Faso continues to grapple with a multi faceted crisis that has led to accelerated displacements. As of 29 February 2024, the country has generously welcomed over39,000 and asylum seekers in...
Burkina Faso Humanitarian Response Plan 2024 At-A-Glance (Published March 2024)
The people of Burkina Faso continue to face an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Despite substantial response efforts by the Government and partners, the humanitarian situation hasn’t improved...
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UNICEF Central Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Child Rights and Humanitarian Dashboard (January - December 2023)
Please refer to the attached Infographic.
Burkina Faso: Working together with communities to build their resilience in the face of a protracted crisis
Statement by Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Director for Africa, following his visit to Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (ICRC) – During my visit to Djibo, in the...
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Burkina Faso, Mali and Western Niger - Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 13 March 2024)
250 humanitarian organisations continue to provide assistance to vulnerable people in this region despite ongoing violence. To date, USD 802 million has been received, enabling humanitarian partners...
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WHO African Region Health Emergency Situation Report - Multi-country Outbreak of Dengue, Consolidated Regional Situation Report # 004 – As of 3 March, 2024
HIGHLIGHTS In the WHO African region, since the beginning of the outbreak in 2023 as of March 3, 2024, a total of 222,011 suspected cases of dengue, including 101,226 confirmed and probable cases and...
Burkina Faso: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 31 January 2024)
The humanitarian situation remains worrying in Burkina Faso at the start of 2024. With over 2 million people displaced as of March 31, 2023, and over 343,000 returnees as of November 30, 2023...
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Burkina Faso - Complex crisis 2023 - DG ECHO Daily Map | 07/03/2024
Refugees / IDP’s : 38 884 All refugees in Burkina Faso 2 062 534 Internally Displaced People. (CONASUR - 31/03/23) 983 284 estimated new displacements i 2023 (OCHA)
Burkina Faso: Over 2,000 children diagnosed with suspected measles in nationwide outbreak
OUAGADOUGOU, 7 March 2024 - Over 2,000 children in Burkina Faso are suspected to have contracted measles in the past four months as a deadly outbreak spreads across the country, Save the Children...
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African health ministers commit to end malaria deaths [EN/AR/ZH]
Yaoundé, 6 March — Ministers of Health from African countries with the highest burden of malaria committed today to accelerated action to end deaths from the disease. They pledged to sustainably and...
Burkina Faso: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 31 December 2023)
Between January and December 2023, 2.9 million people received humanitarian assistance with the combined efforts of humanitarian partners. Over the course of the year, 12,000 MT of food and 900 MT of...
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Nearly 10 000 children vaccinated as malaria vaccine rollout in Africa expands
Brazzaville – Nearly 10 000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have now received the RTS,S malaria vaccine since being introduced this year. A wider malaria vaccine rollout is underway this year...
Burkina Faso: MSF marks one year since the killing of two colleagues in Tougan
On 8 February, 2023, in northwestern Burkina Faso, gunmen fired on a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vehicle a few kilometres from the town of Tougan. The team in the vehicle --...
UNICEF Burkina Faso Humanitarian Situation Report (End of Year) - 01 January - 31 December 2023
HIGHLIGHTS 672,374 pregnant and lactating women received optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counselling and communication on hygiene practices through the mother-to-mother support platform...
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Good news of January 2024
Good news in January at HI: mental health in Ukraine, inclusive development in Niger and Burkina Faso, sexual & reproductive health in South Sudan and rehabilitation in Eastern Chad. A “well-being”...
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WHO African Region Health Emergency Situation Report - Multi-country Outbreak of Dengue, Consolidated Regional Situation Report # 002 – As of 14 January, 2024
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, and Togo HIGHLIGHTS • Since the start of 2023, over 5...
Burkina Faso: On the road to recovery
Karim*, 8, lost his entire family in an attack on his hometown in Burkina Faso in June 2022. Wounded and traumatised, he is finally learning to live again. Sitting on a bench at his school in Dori,...
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, One in five people in the Central Sahel needs humanitarian aid: Now is the time to turn words into action
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 12 January 2024 – The crises gripping the Central Sahel are exacerbating humanitarian and protection needs and threatening to reverse development gains. In 2024, some 17 million...
Burkina Faso: Train health workers to better respond to humanitarian disasters
In Burkina Faso, the health system is under severe strain as a result of the volatile security situation. In the Center-North region, three-quarters of health facilities are closed due to insecurity...