OUAGADOUGOU – The last time Amado Compaore saw his wife, she asked him for a phone charger so she could text friends and let them know she was OK.
She died just hours later. Rose Marie Compaore, 62, Burkina Faso's second Vice President of the parliament, became the first person in the West African country to die from COVID-19. "It's very very difficult ...
My love and my life has left," said Compaore, looking downwards outside his house in the capital, Ouagadougou. Days after her death last month, Compaore's four children arrived from Montreal, Canada, where they live, to be with their father.
Since then no health workers have informed the family what protective measures to take, he said. Burkina Faso is one of Africa's nations hardest