http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/854/ en_GB_uk Burkina Faso http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81060 Bloggers in Burkina Faso have learned to circumvent a system where traditional media is subject to constant censorship from a secretive regime and are succeeding in freeing people's minds, comments blogger Ramata Sore. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/80532 The recent death of a Burkinabe girl after undergoing female genital mutilation has alarmed local residents, prompted several arrests, and caused a strategy shift in the battle to end the illegal practice. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/151123/1/ http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/131538/1/ To complement our team, we expect to recruit an enthusiastic and team-orientated colleague. IICD’s mission is to assist developing countries in the use of ICT as a strategic tool for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. IICD does this through empowering local organisations and stakeholders to make effective use of ICTs on their own terms, and through catalysing lessons learned and knowledge sharing on ICTs by local organisations and the international community. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67943 “Before joining the literacy center, I was in the darkness,” said Monique Kaboré of Burkina Faso, who learned to read and write through a Lutheran World Relief literacy project, and has since then started her own small business and been able to educate her children. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/116888/1/ WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 10 (OneWorld) - Famine in Niger is the most visible sign of a West African food crisis that could have been averted had international donors not been so stingy with some of the world's poorest countries, a leading aid group has said. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/116619/1/ The Millennium Challenge Corporation has approved nearly $13 million for programs to encourage Burkinabe girls to attend school. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67255 Although the World Food Programme has received 57% of emergency food aid needed for Niger, millions more in the neighboring countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania are threatened by a major food crisis as well, because rich countries have not responded to months of appeals for emergency funds, warned Oxfam on Wednesday. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/61182 The Union of Francophone Community Radio Stations is meeting Burkina Faso from 1-4 December 2004. The union will elect a new leadership and review strategies to strengthen grassroots radio across Africa. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/53986 Films produced by young students from Burkina Faso, India, Israel, Mexico and Romania to promote peace will now be exhibited internationally and online.The perceptions of young minds on global issues like conflict and violence are reflected through these films. http://www.unseulmonde.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/47472 "Lutte contre l'impunité, vérité et justice pour Thomas Sankara". C'est sous ce thème que les Sankaristes ont décidé, le 15 octobre, de se tenir en rangs serrés pour commémorer le 16e anniversaire de la disparition tragique du "père de la révolution burkinabè" et de ses compagnons. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/44668 A UK-based development organisation has launched guidelines for peer education programmes based on the experiences of five youth projects from Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana and Indonesia. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/44812 Read some stories of change from African countries. In school in Burkina Faso addresses local poverty and environmental issues through agricultural education while a school in Ethiopia opens its doors to students with disabilities. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/39491 Radio Salankoloto is an associative radio station broadcasting out of Ouagadougou which aims to inform and thus improve the lives of radio listeners. They are harnassing the power of a local radio station to help combat the growing problem of HIV/AIDS in Burkina. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/39555 Radio Salankoloto is an associative radio station broadcasting out of Ouagadougou which aims to inform and thus improve the lives of radio listeners. They are harnassing the power of a local radio station to help combat the growing problem of HIV/AIDS in Burkina.