Burkina Faso authorities should urgently investigate and publicly report on the whereabouts of six judges and prosecutors as ...

A massacre led by Blaise Compaoré, an ally of France, put an end to the 1983 revolution, which today inspires struggles in ...

Behind the patriotic propaganda and Russian backing, Burkina Faso’s military is losing ground fast and the once unthinkable ...

Since 2020, when suspected jihadists attacked the Kafolo military camp in northeastern Ivory Coast, the army has maintained a ...

Burkina Faso's military government has refused to take in deportees from the US, as Washington suspended issuing visas in the ...

Armed groups linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State control large swathes of Burkinabè territory and have attacked ...

Polls closed in Burkina Faso on Sunday after a presidential and parliamentary election dominated by the threat of Islamist violence that prevented voting in hundreds of villages.

FILE - Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore arrives to the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025. (Stanislav Krasilnikov/RIA Novosti via AP, file) OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso says it has refused a proposal from the Trump administration to accept deportees from the ...

Djeneba Sawadogo was making a cake when she heard a noise she did not recognise - a series of sharp cracks that rang across the village of Tongomayel in northern Burkina Faso in June 2019.

Did Burkina Faso reverse its September 2025 ban on LGBTQ+ conduct, as of? No, that's not true: There were no national or ...