Traoré was born in 1988 in Bondokuy, a small town on the route connecting Burkina Faso’s second city – Bobo Dioulasso – and its fourth largest, Ouahigouya. He completed secondary school in ...

Since then, the country has suffered recurrent attacks, including on schools, by armed groups. As the security situation deteriorates, some 900,000 people have become internally displaced. Burkina ...

Even when compared with other developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Burkina Faso’s some 15 million people have very ... only about half of primary school-aged children actually attended classes.