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

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

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

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

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 ...

(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 ...

The Lake Chad region has been repeatedly attacked ... junta overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum in 2023. Along with Burkina Faso and Mali – neighbouring states where juntas also snatched power ...