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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Karaboro Senufo of Cote d’Ivoire

The Karaboro Senufo of Cote d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 10,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community indigenous to the Cascades Region of Burkina Faso. They mostly adhere to Animism and Eastern Karaboro is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Senufo, Karaboro

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Eastern Karaboro (xrb)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 10,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013092
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

85%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Karaboro
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Karaboro, Eastern Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Karaboro:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Eastern Karaboro:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Eastern Karaboro bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Karaboro Senufo are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Karaboro Senufo:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Karaboro Senufo of Cote d’Ivoire

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

And God is able to make all grace about to you, so that having sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
read2 Corinthians 9:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will see that God provides for their needs and be content in His provision so that they may excel in every good work.

To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel.
readEphesians 6:18b-19

Ask God to give believers He sends to the lost of this people group the boldness and clarity to proclaim the mystery of the gospel in a way that people can understand.

Karaboro, Eastern Across Countries (ROP3 - 102846) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Eastern KaraboroPG012394Eastern KaraboroBurkina Faso82,500Engaged yet UnreachedEastern KaraboroAnimism
Karaboro SenufoPG014376Karaboro SenufoTogo56,500Engaged yet UnreachedEastern KaraboroEthnoreligion
Karaboro SenufoPG013092Karaboro SenufoCote d’Ivoire10,500Engaged yet UnreachedEastern KaraboroAnimism

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