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Orange buys Airtel's Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone units

2016-01-13 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

French incumbent adds two more countries and 5.5 million subscribers to its mobile customer base.

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Winds of climate change blast farmers hopes of sustaining a livelihood in Burkina Faso

2015-07-07 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: One afternoon towards the end of May a violent wind howled through Bogandé, the main town in Gnagna province, in eastern Burkina Faso. Raising a storm of dust and sand, it plunged the streets into semi-darkness, driving roaming goats crazy. In villages across Gnagna people connect these extreme climate events with deteriorating living standards. They explain how these increasingly frequent red winds wreak havoc, burying their crops in sand, destroying their homes, and spreading disease among their...

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Burkina Faso Farmers Lead the Way on Food Security and Climate Change Resilience

2013-08-15 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World Resources Institute: If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo--three farmers in Burkina Fasos Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered earlier this year at a workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to discuss strategies on combating food insecurity and adapting to climate change. Attendees at the event--organized by the group Network for Participatory Approaches to Research...

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