Behind the patriotic propaganda and Russian backing, Burkina Faso’s military is losing ground fast and the once unthinkable ...

Burkina Faso authorities should urgently investigate and publicly report on the whereabouts of six judges and prosecutors as ...

Burkina Faso's military government has refused to take in deportees from the US, as Washington suspended issuing visas in the ...

Since 2020, when suspected jihadists attacked the Kafolo military camp in northeastern Ivory Coast, the army has maintained a ...

Did Burkina Faso reverse its September 2025 ban on LGBTQ+ conduct, as of? No, that's not true: There were no national or ...

Armed groups linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State control large swathes of Burkinabè territory and have attacked ...

Djeneba Sawadogo was making a cake when she heard a noise she did not recognise - a series of sharp cracks that rang across the village of Tongomayel in northern Burkina Faso in June 2019.

A massacre led by Blaise Compaoré, an ally of France, put an end to the 1983 revolution, which today inspires struggles in ...

South Africa and Nigeria were taken off a global watchdog’s dirty-money list, providing a fillip for increased remittances ...

His American accent is generic, his facial features a touch blurry. But the words have a ring of truth to them. “Africa must unite,” says the ai-generated likeness of Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s 37 ...