Health workers launched the new vaccine in Burkina Faso in West Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

They live in Burkina Faso,Gabon, Ghana,Kenya,Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

But some people think cotton producers could make a better profit, if their crops could be used in Burkina Faso.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Even though this cloth is specially designed for Burkina Faso, only about a third is manufactured in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Underneath the designs, the fabric itself is imported from Benin, even though Burkina Faso is Africa's largest producer of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

These are the heaviest rains in 90 years in Burkina Faso, and at least seven people have been killed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

But Burkina Faso is not the only West African country struggling with the ravaging affects of the floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

More than 150,000 people in Burkina Faso are homeless many now living in schools and community centers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Eight people are dead in Burkina Faso, where meteorologists say fell in just 12 hours,last week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

The World Food Program is distributing food to flood-affected victims in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The five new members are replacing out-going council members Burkina Faso, Costa Rica,Croatia, Libya and Vietnam.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

KickStart says the sale of its pumps has helped to move nearly half a million people out of poverty in Kenya,Tanzania, Mali and Burkina Faso.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Unusually severe rains began falling on September 1 in Burkina Faso, depositing about one-quarter of the country's annual rainfall on the capital,Ouagadougou in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

That means that one-quarter of Burkina Faso's annual rainfall happened in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

UN Humanitarian spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs says Burkina Faso has been the hardest hit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

"The rain in Burkina Faso during one year represents 1,200 millimeters,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Nearly 5,000 farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal, and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe, after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Virtually all of Burkina Faso's cotton is exported.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

She decides not to buy this year's design quite yet. (SPEAKING) Ouedrago says in Burkina Faso, March 8 is a day for women to relax and men to take care of everything at home.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The latest United Nations assessment of West African flooding says more than 150 people have been killed many in Sierra Leone and that others there and in Senegal,Burkina Faso, Ghana and Niger are also seriously affected by rising flood waters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06