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3 hrs ago | The Daily Star

France offers copies of 500 African films after Burkina Faso deluge

OUGADOUGU: French state organization Culturesfrance offered 500 copies of African films to Ouagadougou's film institute Friday, after the Burkina Faso capital was flooded by torrential rains.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Guinea: Opposition Presents Demands to Compaore

A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaor of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Voice of America

Compaore Chairs Inter-Guinean Dialogue

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has chaired the first day of mediation talks in Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Guinea, Blaise Compaore, Lansana Conte

Mon Nov 02, 2009

BBC

Ivory Coast's old foes 'rearming'

Former foes from Ivory Coast's 2002 civil war are rearming in defiance of an arms embargo, UN experts say.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Sat Oct 31, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Burkina Faso: New Farming Technique Brings Trees Back to the Sahel

Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Agriculture, Science, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Sudan Tribune

Burkina Faso President visits Sudan for talks on Darfur

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore today started a two-day official visit to Sudan where he will hold talks with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Darfur conflict The visit is part of the distinguished relations between the two countries and tends to coordinate between the two sides in the issues of mutual concern," said Haydar ...

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Blaise Compaore

Fri Oct 30, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Ghana: IGP, Ceps Boss Should Bring Their Men to Book

The issue of corruption has become so pervasive in the Ghanaian society to the extent that it is now perceived in certain quarters as a pedestrian and banal subject which does not deserve any discussion.

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Related Topix: Ghana, Africa, World News

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Independent Online

Conakry residents begin silent protest

Conakry - Many residents of Conakry and other Guinean towns stayed at home on Wednesday in a quiet protest at the army's massacre of opposition demonstrators exactly a month earlier.

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Related Topix: World News, Guinea, Africa, Blaise Compaore

Tue Oct 27, 2009

United Nations

Ivorian parties continuing to rearm despite embargo, says UN report

Blue helmet inspecting weapons collected from Ivorian militias 27 October 2009 &#150 Both sides in Cote d'Ivoire, which has been divided for more than seven years between the Government-controlled south and the rebel Forces Nouvelles-held north, are violating the arms embargo imposed on the country, according to a new United Nations report.

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Related Topix: Cote d'Ivoire, Africa, World News

Mon Oct 26, 2009

The First Post

Daily animal picture: Feeding time for the holy crocodile

A man feeds a chicken to a crocodile in the sacred marsh of Sabou near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Sunday Times

Guinea opposition to meet mediator

The opposition to Guinea's junta plans to meet the mediator in the country's political crisis, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, on November 2, an opposition member said.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Guinea, Blaise Compaore,

Fri Oct 23, 2009

United Nations

C te d'Ivoire: UN envoy appeals for November presidential elections to keep on track

The top United Nations envoy to the Cote d'Ivoire today called on the West African nation to build on momentum towards holding its much-delayed presidential elections, slated for the end of next month.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Blaise Compaore

Wed Oct 21, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Africa: Africa to Present $65 Billion Bill At U.N. Global Warming Meeting

Two months to the United Nations' climate summit, African leaders have drawn up a $65 billion dollar budget to deal with the effects of environment change.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, World News, Africa, Kenya,

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Raw Story

Guinea pledges to cooperate with UN inquiry

Guinea's isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's massacre of opposition demonstrators, the UN official leading the probe said.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Guinea, Blaise Compaore

Sun Oct 18, 2009

BBC News

Guinea's leader misses deadline

Guinea's military leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara has postponed an announcement on whether he will stand in next year's presidential election.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Guinea

Sat Oct 17, 2009

BBC

Country profile: Burkina Faso

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts, matched in number only by the military coups it has endured, especially during the 1980s.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Blaise Compaore

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Prensa Latina

Africa for Clean Sources of Energy

Ouagadougou, Oct 13 African heads of State advocate the development of solar, hydraulic, and wind energy to cope with energy needs in the next 20 years.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World News, Africa

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Pan-African News Wire

Guinea News Update: EU Backs Compaore as Mediator; Junta Condemned for Massacre

BRUSSELS 6 October 2009 Sapa-AFP EU BACKS GUINEA MEDIATOR, URGES RETURN TO LAW AND ORDER The European Union threw its weight Tuesday behind Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore as Guinea mediator and urged all sides to work to restore order after last week's massacre in Conakry.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Guinea, Blaise Compaore,

Sun Oct 11, 2009

The Voice

GUINEA- Leader in mediation talks after 200 protestors killed

BURKINA FASO'S president, Blaise Compaore, flew to Guinea as part of a regional mediation effort following the recent killing of 200 protestors, allegedly by Junta military.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Blaise Compaore

Sat Oct 10, 2009

The Straits Times

Farmers fight Sahara desert

AS AFRICAN policy makers demand compensation for the effects of climate change at a forum in Burkina Faso's capital, the country's farmers fight a daily struggle to halt the advancing Sahara desert.

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