Mali's ruling junta arrested one of the country's top politicians Wednesday for criticizing the military rulers of ...

Burkina Faso's foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on November 9 as "suiting" his country better than its ...

The latest execution in Burkina Faso was in 1988, according to rights group Amnesty International. It concerned four leaders accused of an attempted coup d’état to depose president Blaise ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara, used to be known for its ...

Moscow's narrative blasting neocolonialism and Western hegemony resonates strongly with many leaders on the continent. Burkina Faso was a French colony for the first half of the 20th Century and ...

The country’s Foreign Minister told AFP, “There is no room for fear, because we know what we want and where we want to go.” ...

Burkina Faso's new military leader Ibrahim Traore is escorted by soldiers in Ouagadougou. (Reuters) Burkina Faso’s military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million in ... almost 6.5 million need humanitarian aid to survive. The country's leader, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, installed a system of de-facto censorship ...

Last week a government source told the media that Burkina Faso’s military junta plans to reinstate the death penalty, which ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Martin Schindler, Mission Chief for Burkina Faso, held meetings in Ouagadougou during September 30–October 9 and in Washington during the 2024 ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on Saturday. The latest execution in Burkina ...