The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Burkina Faso is leaving the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to join counterterrorism forces with Niger and Mali. The junta ...

Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of Burkina Faso, has banned judges from donning wigs that are symbolic of colonial French and British outfits. Colonial-era wigs have long been associated with foreign ...

Members of the French DGSE were 'held hostage' for a year in Ouagadougou, accused of espionage by putsch leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré. It took bitter negotiations and the decisive intervention of ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Their loved ones were slaughtered ... or the Islamic State group — and by rival pro-government forces. A 27-year-old Fulani cattle trader from Djibo, a ...

In late December, Burkina Faso passed a law granting amnesty to ... serving as the chief of staff of the armed forces. Bassole, a former minister of foreign affairs, was also implicated in the ...

Junta leader of Burkina Faso Captain Ibrahim Traore lambasts French ... #ibrahimtraore #frenchpresident ‘Imperialist Forces’: Burkina Junta Leader Lambasts Macron For Insulting All ‘Africans ...

Burkina Faso has been under army rule since January 2022. The West African nation was among the first African nations to expel French forces. Over the past few years, several African nations ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own ... necessary consultation of all the nation’s active forces and without a referendum to ask the entire Malian ...