Burkina Faso on Friday halted a project backed by US billionaire Bill Gates that had seen genetically modified mosquitoes ...

Burkina Faso ends Target Malaria, a GMO mosquito project funded by the Gates Foundation. The government cites biosafety risks, low impact, and scientific sovereignty in halting the program. The fight ...

Target Malaria, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is the latest NGO to come under pressure from the country's ...

Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the controversial Target Malaria project, a Bill and Melinda Gates ...

Burkina Faso's military government under Ibrahim Traoré has ordered the immediate halt of an initiative backed by US ...

Many both inside and outside Burkina Faso don't trust the virus data provided by the government — 15,514 cases and 265 deaths — noting a lack of testing and a health system the U.N. has called ...

On paper, Burkina Faso's government covers the cost of medications and care for children under 5, but often no drugs are available in hospitals, meaning families must buy them elsewhere.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a multi-billion dollar charity and one of the most powerful in the world, has also earmarked $10 million for contraceptive programs in Burkina Faso to help ...