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

Zambia, Burkina Faso and South Africa got their AFCON U17 campaigns underway with wins on day of the tournament in Morocco ...

Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights Watch ...

Burkina Faso interim president, captain Ibrahim Traore, embodies the aspirations of the African majority, and his style of ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger will leave the Ecowas group in January but have six months to return. BBC Africa speaks exclusively to a man from Ghana who was held captive by insurgents in Burkina Faso.

JNIM do not seek war against Ghana," the man, known as Ansari ... weapons that they have taken from the military in Burkina Faso. They do this by relying on the trucks that travel up to Niger ...

(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 ...

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 Solenzo on March 10 ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

The Economic Community of West African States hopes to use this time to convince the three nations to stay in the bloc. Groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL accused of ‘massacring villagers ...

Burkina Faso has experienced a convergence of crises, including inter-ethnic violence, armed conflict, poverty, inequalities, food insecurity, and environmental change. As a result, over 1.4 million ...