The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...

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

and was killed four years later in another coup that put Burkina Faso back in France's political orbit until Traoré's seizure of power. Ghanaian security analyst Prof Kwesi Aning, who previously ...

The list of African countries under military rule may have risen to seven as the Army in Gabon said they had taken over power ...

Pope Leo XIV is the latest public figure targeted by peddlers of false information about Burkina Faso and its leader, Ibrahim ...

In this Feb. 18, 2020 photo, Burkina Faso paratroopers are being trained at the U.S. military-led annual Flintlock counterterrorism exercise in West Africa. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy) United States ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) faces growing threats of terrorism, climate change, military coups, ...

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

Across townships, cities, markets and digital feeds in Africa, the name of Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country ...

Despite promising to fight the security crisis that pushed them to stage a coup, Burkina Faso’s military leaders have struggled to deal with the worsening crisis. According to conservative ...