DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government-allied militia, Human Rights Watch said ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is reigniting Thomas Sankara's revolutionary spirit in Burkina Faso, challenging neo-colonialism and ...

Ibrahim Traore is Burkina Faso’s president today, courtesy of two coups in under nine months – January and September 2022. He ...

(Nairobi) – Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of ...

Burkina Faso raised 40.35 billion CFA ($67 million) in a recent bond auction but had to accept high interest rates. • Investor confidence is shaken following a government request for commercial banks ...

(Nairobi) – Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025, for reporting on the government crackdown on the media, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities ...

But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...

Tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours have flared once again after the downing of a Turkish-made military ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso's ruling military junta arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights ...

The juntas in West Africa have discovered the sweetness of power and seem reluctant to hand it back to civilians.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Jaroslaw Wieczorek, Mission Chief for Burkina Faso, held meetings in Ouagadougou during April 1–8 in the context of the third review of Burkina Faso's ...

Their hard-fought 2-1 victory over Egypt on Thursday night confirmed their status as one of the tournament's most formidable ...