With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso's security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

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 official criticizing junta ...

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, came to power in September 2022 following a military coup that ousted interim ...

But in 1987, Compaore turned on his former friend in a coup that killed Sankara in the capital — and later became president himself. Nearly four decades after his death, Sankara is being celebrated in ...

On May 27, 2025 security reports from Burkina Faso disclosed that a convoy of 47 long vehicles disguised as carrying ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

Burna Boy has responded fiercely to the heavy criticism he faced after expressing his intention to hold a free concert in ...

The latest Traore frenzy reached a new peak late April with a solidarity march in the country's capital, Ouagadougou, following an alleged coup attempt and comments by Gen. Michael Langley, the head ...

Production from large-scale operations will increase by 4% to 55.7 tons this year, its director general of mines and geology ...

Since 2006, teachers’ unions in Burkina Faso and Canada have been working together to strengthen capacity building for ...

Social media has been flooded with a wave of music videos of stars like Justin Bieber, Beyoncé and R. Kelly singing the glory ...