Burkina Faso president reshuffles government (People's Daily)

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore reshuffled his government on Friday, replacing three ministers, said news reports from Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. The three new government members are Minister of Labor and Social Security Amadou Adrien Kone, Minister of Trade, Promotion of Enterprise and Handicraft Leonce Kone and minister in charge of budget planning Francois Marie Didier ...

Upper West schools to rely on Burkina Faso French teachers (Ghanaweb.com)

Wa, March 10, GNA - The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council is to rely on French teachers from Burkina Faso to teach students at the Junior High School level.

Phaesun Builds Telecomm Solar Systems in Burkina Faso (Renewable Energy World)

Phaesun GmbH, along with its partner Ikratos Africa is building ten solar power plants in Koudougou Region in Burkina Faso. The installations, which are expected to be finished at the end of March will produce electricity for telecommunications plants. The systems are being built for Telecel Faso, which has up until now covered its network with diesel-powered telecommunications plants so far.

Burkina Faso (AllAfrica.com)

On 12 March the Ministry of Health said there had been 2,188 reported cases and 336 deaths, and the 15-percent fatality rate had not changed in the past month.

WEST AFRICA: Fewer meningitis cases but more deadly (AlertNet)

Source: IRIN This year there are less than half the reported meningitis infections than in the same period in 2009, but more patients are dying - 13 percent in 2010 versus 8 percent in 2009 - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Disease Surveillance Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, which tracks 14 countries prone to meningitis outbreaks between Senegal and Ethiopia.

WEST AFRICA: Fewer meningitis cases but more deadly (IRIN)

DAKAR, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) - This year there are less than half the reported meningitis infections than in the same period in 2009, but more patients are dying - 13 percent in 2010 versus 8 percent in 2009 - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Disease Surveillance Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, which tracks 14 countries prone to meningitis outbreaks between Senegal and ...

Relevant Links (AllAfrica.com)

At the African level, the Inter Milan striker was second highest scorer in the joint qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations and World Cup behind Burkina Faso's Moumouni Dagano, qualifying Cameroon in the process for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-12 09:40 Burkina pulls water, electricity privatisations (Interactive Investor)

OUAGADOUGOU, March 12 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has suspended plans to privatise national water and electricity utilities, the government said in a statement. A cabinet meeting in the West African state this week decided instead "to provide them with management of a private nature accompanied by performance contract and so to withdraw them from the list of companies to be privatised". The ...

Spanish, Italian hostages in Mali 'free' (AFP via Yahoo! News)

A Spanish aid worker and an Italian woman held hostage by Islamist militants in Mali were freed Wednesday and were due to arrive in neighbouring Burkina Faso, a diplomatic source told AFP.

Spanish, Italian hostages 'being freed in Mali' (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Islamist militants freed a Spanish aid worker and an Italian woman Wednesday who were being taken to Burkina Faso from Mali where kidnappers held them since November, a Malian negotiator said.