A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military ...

The woman replies that she’s in pain. Someone off camera says: “You, the Fulani people, do you think you can take over Burkina Faso? You will never! What is left for you to do here is to ...

Since 2015, the unrest has killed more than 26,000 people in Burkina Faso alone, according to conflict monitor ACLED. That tally included more than 13,500 victims who have died following the ...

Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

Burkina Faso and its Sahel neighbours Mali and Niger are fighting a jihadist insurgency that has spread across the region since it first took root in Mali 13 years ago. Since 2015, the unrest has ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 15 (Reuters) - Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been ... The videos show 58 people including women and children "who appear to be dead or dying," it said, adding ...

Junta-run Mali, which has broken off ties with France, announced Tuesday it was quitting an international group of French-speaking countries, a day after its allies Niger and Burkina Faso did the ...

On Monday, fellow junta-led states Burkina Faso and Niger, which have also turned their backs on former colonial power France while forging ties with Russia, announced their withdrawal from the OIF.

“We are worried that the ‘Boy Scouts’ in Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso would be having a good ... that any government that cannot protect people and property without trampling on ...

The ministry also plans to ensure that forced marriage is clearly outlawed in Burkina Faso’s criminal code. Huge thanks to the 19,454 people in the UK who signed our petition calling on the country’s ...