From the 20 to 22 of August, a workshop was organized for the newly elected refugee committees of Goudoubo by UNHCR and IEDA-Relief in order to continue their capacity-building and ensure an effective community based management of camps. The training included principles of coordination and admin...

On the 16 August, 2013, UNHCR, with the participation of CONAREF, the NGO HELP-Germany, OCADES and the Direction Régionale de l’Environement et du Développement Durable, launched the beginning of a re-forestation exercise in order to improve the environment of the host population that have so warmly...

The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

45.000 personnes apatrides ou à risque d'apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest ont reçu des documents d'identité au cours des 18 derniers mois. DAKAR, SÉNÉGAL, 27 octobre 2016 (HCR) - Des progrès significatifs ont été accomplis pour éradiquer l'apatridie dans le monde entier, mais les conflits en cours...

Paris et onze pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest ont décidé de resserrer leur coopération dans la lutte contre le terrorisme jihadiste qui reste une priorité dans la bande sahélo-saharienne et en France. En début de semaine les ministres de l'intérieur et de la défense des 11 pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest se ...

107,000 Malians have arrived in this small West African country since January. They have abandoned everything to escape the conflict in northern Mali and now must survive in refugee camps in Burkina Faso.

The Mali crisis has driven over 250,000 people into the region. UNHCR chief António Guterres travelled to the largest host country in a call for more support.

The world should show the same generosity towards more than 250,000 Malian refugees as the impoverished countries hosting them, said UNHCR and BPRM in Burkina Faso. By: Helene Caux, ed. Vivian Tan | 2 August 2012 | Français DAMBA CAMP, Burkina Faso, August 2 (UNHCR) - UNHCR High Commission...

The renowned soprano visits Damba camp in northern Burkina Faso to raise awareness about the refugees in Africa’s Sahel region and to help raise funds. By: Helene Caux, ed. Leo Dobbs | 9 July 2012 | Français DAMBA CAMP, Burkina Faso, July 9 (UNHCR) - Renowned soprano Barbara Hendricks has ...

As thousands of refugees flee an Islamist reign of terror in northern Mali, and with military intervention looming, the UN’s top relief coordinator for West Africa, Valentin Topsoba, speaks to Douglas Herbert about an impending humanitarian disaster. Can he persuade Western governments to provide ur...