LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS )-At least 15 West African countries would be delivered of the Covid Organics herbal syrup developed in Madagascar to cure Covid-19 patients. The delivery would be made through Equatorial Guinea who who earlier came to the country to pick up the load. Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina stated that they intend to…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso and Ghana have eased some coronavirus lockdown restrictions this week to test the possibility of a return to a semblance of normality after weeks of shutdowns that have hobbled both economies. The West African countries have rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and it is unclear yet how bad it will…
LAGOS FABRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Gunmen killed 24 men, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three others on Sunday in Burkina Faso, an official said. It was the latest attack against a religious leader in the increasingly unstable West African nation. The mayor of Boundore commune, Sihanri Osangola Brigadie, said the attack occurred in the town…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fourteen civilians, mostly schoolchildren, died Saturday when a roadside bomb blew up their bus in northwestern Burkina Faso, a security source told AFP. Four people were seriously hurt in the blast in Sourou province near the Mali border, the source added, as children returned to school after holidays. “The vehicle hit a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 14 people were shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday morning, the government said. The identity of the gunmen was not immediately clear and further details on the attack had yet to emerge. Burkinabe armed forces were caring for the wounded and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS-Ziniaré (Burkina Faso) (AFP) – Five years after the people of Burkina Faso rose up against Blaise Compaore, chasing him out of the nation he ruled with an iron fist for 27 years, dire living conditions are prompting nostalgia for the old days. “Before, there were projects, work, businesses,” said Maurice Iboudo,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso. Ahmed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ouagadougou on Monday She said the victims were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou…