KAYA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - The thought of spending her life with a man she had never met was too much for Marie. She was not even present when her family arranged for her to marry a stranger from ...

Fode Sitafa Mara was employed by the United States embassy when he abused the two girls A United States citizen has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing two ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland man who was an employee at the U.S. Embassy in Burkina Faso has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two girls while working in the African nation, ...

Approximately 50 girls are being treated in Burkina Faso after botched female genital mutilation, a minister says. The circumcisions took place in the Kaya area, about 100km (60 miles) north of the ...

YAKO, Burkina Faso, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Inès Sanso was 15 years old, her family decided she was to marry a man three times her age in Yako, a small town in the rural north of ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: One girl at a time, the Kaya Girls Center is working to combat child marriage, which ...

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