The young people who toppled the government are now confronting questions about what’s next, and who will deliver on their ...

Burkina Faso orders NGOs to use state-run bank for all funds Move follows arrests, aims to tighten oversight of foreign NGOs Burkina Faso issued a decree on Oct. 16 requiring all accredited ...

If you try to generate an image of a public figure, the Sora app—which is still invitation-only—will generally tell you your ...

Three Burkinabe journalists arrested earlier this week were released Wednesday, while intelligence agents still hold two ...

Burkina Faso defender Steve Yago has hit out at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA after his country ...

The new leadership announced that Randrianirina would assume office during a formal hearing of the High Constitutional Court on October 17. Rajoelina, who fled abroad after being impeached by ...

For young people, who make up 75% of Burkina Faso's population, Sankara's legacy lives on in the policies of the current presidentThirty-eight years after the assassination of Pan-Africanist leader ...

With less than a fortnight to go before Ivory Coast's presidential election, three other west African states -- all ruled by ...

Ousséni Ilboudo, managing editor of the newspaper L’Observateur Paalga, and Michel Wendpouiré Nana, deputy editor-in-chief of ...

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and ...

Burkina Faso rejects a Trump administration proposal to take in U.S. deportees, calling it “indecent” and against national ...

Former Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, who won acclaim as a champion of democracy before being toppled by a military coup in 2012, has died at the age of 72, an aide said on Tuesday.