The coup d’etat that unfolded Friday in Burkina Faso in many ways mirrored the one just eight months ago, when Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba ousted its democratically elected president ...

Despite im promise to return democracy to im country, Mali military leader, General Assimi Goita, don secure five-year ...

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

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

Anti-French sentiment in Burkina Faso has roused support for coup leader Ibrahim Traore on social media, much of it ...

Johannesburg — The military junta that seized power in Burkina Faso less than two years ago announced a law Wednesday criminalizing homosexuality. "Henceforth homosexuality and associated ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso Coup Leader to Hand Over Power in Two Years Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the leader of the military junta which seized control of Burkina Faso in a military coup d’etat ...

The likely deepfake video which appears to show Ibrahim Traoré, the country’s interim president, making a speech in English has been viewed 13 million times.