Crowd estimates at a rally in support of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6 range between 7,000 and 15 ...

The decision by the military-led Alliance of Sahel States to impose a 0.5% tariff on goods from rival ECOWAS nations has ...

Suspected fighters from the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have launched a devastating assault on Guiedougou, a ...

Claim: Burkina Faso junta-led government, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has supplied humanitarian aid to 7 “struggling” African ...

A leading Nigerian priest has praised President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso for making a strong statement in favor of ...

Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of ...

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

I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 4 April 2025. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to release recently detained journalists Guézouma Sanogo, ...

Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have regularly received praise on social media for infrastructure and development ...

Four decades ago a 34-year-old army captain from Burkina Faso stood before the UN General Assembly and demanded a new world order. The speech, which was watched eagerly by young people across west ...

Niger’s junta has officially withdrawn the country from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional coalition formed in 2015 to combat Islamist insurgents around Lake Chad. The move ...