LSTM Begins £0.5 Million Malaria Study In Burkina Faso (Medical News Today)

A new study led by LSTM will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the risk of contracting malaria. The information provided by the study, based in Burkina Faso and running until 2014, will strengthen adolescent health services and develop effective preventative programmes for anaemia control in young women. Young women who ...

Volta Resources Intersects 191 Meters at 1.31 g/t Gold at its Kiaka Gold Project in Burkina Faso (ITNews)

TORONTO, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Also 93.0m @ 1.59g/t Gold, Including 57.0m @ 2.05g/t Gold TSX: VTR Volta Resources Inc. ("Volta" or the "Company") (TSX: VTR) announces the drill results from the next completed section at its Kiaka Gold Project, located approximately 120 kilometres southeast of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. To date, 36 holes (~5,400 meters) have been ...

Volta Resources intersects 191 meters at 1.31 g/t gold at its Kiaka Gold Project in Burkina Faso (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)

Volta Resources Inc. announces the drill results from the next completed section at its Kiaka Gold Project, located approximately 120 kilometres southeast of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso.

LSTM begins £0.5 million malaria study in Burkina Faso (PhysOrg)

A new study led by LSTM will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the risk of contracting malaria. The information provided by the study, based in Burkina Faso and running until 2014, will strengthen adolescent health services and develop effective preventative programmes for anaemia control in young women.

Governments Confirm Climate Accord Pledges, No New Commitments (Environment News Service)

Expanding desert in Africa stretches across Mali and Burkina Faso. (Photo by Breaking the Cycle )

Guinea And the Ensuing Peace Process (AllAfrica.com)

Lagos — THE official line coming from inside Guinea-Conakry, the Burkina Faso government and the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, is that Captain Moussa Dadis Kamara is in Ouagadougou, the Burkinabe capital, recuperating from serious head injuries he received on December 3 in an assassination attempt by the head of the presidential Guard, Lieutenant Abubakar "Toumbba" Diakite.

WFP, Vodafone Project Distributes Food Vouchers by Text Message in Burkina Faso (Cellular-News.com)

The U.N.\'s World Food Program (WFP) and the mobile telecommunications company Vodafone are piloting a project that will allow shopkeepers in Burkina Faso to manage food vouchers by text message.

Volta sees Burkina Faso mine producing gold in 2014 (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News)

Toronto-listed Volta Resources expects a pre-feasibility study at its Kiaka gold mine in Burkina Faso to start in second half of 2010, with first production at the mine seen in 2014, the CEO said on Monday.

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-02-01 11:50 Volta sees Burkina Faso mine producing gold in 2014 (Interactive Investor)

CAPE TOWN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Toronto-listed Volta Resources expects a pre-feasibility study at its Kiaka gold mine in Burkina Faso to start second half of 2010, with first production at the mine seen in 2014, the CEO said on Monday. "The pre-feasibility study will take between six and nine months, starting in the second half of this year, so I would assume mid-2011 it would be done," Kevin ...

Ivorian ex-rebels demand dismantling of Gbagbo's militia (AFP via Yahoo! News)

A former rebel group in Ivory Coast on Monday demanded the dismantling of militias loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo, in line with the latest peace accord.