It is the latest salvo in the ongoing crackdown on independent organisations by the military authorities which seized power ...

How will strained ties between ECOWAS and neighbours Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso affect the fight against arm ...

Burkina Faso's military government under Captain Ibrahim Traoré has suspended the country's largest student union, deepening ...

Preliminary reports indicate a total of 28 people have been shot dead in Nouna town of the province of Kossi in Burkina Faso.

In a statement, the country’s Ministry of Health said epidemiological surveillance has been reinforced, particularly at ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Burkina Faso's authorities secretly held and abused a prominent investigative journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift detention facility in the capital, an international ...

Burkina Faso’s military government under Ibrahim Traore is tightening state control over the country’s multi-billion-dollar ...

RSF says investigation found Atiana Serge Oulon held at Ouagadougou villa, contradicting authorities’ account.

Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup in 2022 Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget ...

6.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance 2.1 million people are internally displaced 46 locations under siege of nonstate armed groups 40% of people live below the poverty line Support ...