Burkina Faso’s armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a dead body with machetes, while gloating...
Armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) have escalated attacks on civilians in Burkina Faso, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report....
Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa’s main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its determination to...
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) with support from the Ministry of Transport (MoT) has secured the release of six Ghanaian cargo trucks detained at the Dakola...
Russia is withdrawing 100 of its paramilitary officers from Burkina Faso to help in the war in Ukraine. They are part of about 300 soldiers from...
Former President John Dramani Mahama has denied widely circulated reports that guinea fowls that were reared under the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) flew to Burkina Faso. During...
Recent shootings, first at the presidential palace, and then, at the site of a public broadcaster, in the capital Ouagadougou, are fuelling suggestions that Burkina Faso...
Burkina Faso’s military rulers will remain in power for another five years after national talks ended in agreeing to extend the transition back to democracy by...
Journalists in Burkina Faso are the new target of forced conscription to the army, the West African director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Sadibou Marong has...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it is “concerned” about authorities in Burkina Faso suspending broadcasts from the BBC and Voice of America. As we...
