Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has reportedly ordered the apprehension of the alleged mastermind behind a failed ...

In April, the head of the United States Africa Command announced to the US congress that Traore was one of the top enemies of ...

Burkina Faso's military authorities have freed four critics of the ruling junta who were press-ganged into fighting the Sahel country's long-running jihadist insurgency for months, sources told AFP on ...

Mafalda Marchioro woke up to messages from friends living overseas asking if she was safe in Abidjan, the largest city in ...

Burkina Faso, a country landlocked in West Africa, has been on a meteoric rise recently. A former French colony previously ...

The decrees dated mid-June cited a government minister as saying the decision against the four NGOs was due to formality ...

Anti-French sentiment in Burkina Faso has roused support for coup leader Ibrahim Traore on social media, much of it exaggerated. A video containing an image of Traore and a man purported to be a ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American ...

Then Burkina Faso fell to military rulers in a September 2022 coup. Niger's government was overthrown by generals in July 2023. Common history, and a new alliance ...

The likely deepfake video which appears to show Ibrahim Traoré, the country’s interim president, making a speech in English ...

Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American ...