N’Djim had claimed on the Joliba TV News broadcaster on Sunday that the military rulers of Burkina Faso, a close ally of Mali ...

A Nigerien-Ivorian journalist has been jailed in Niger over allegations he attempted to destabilise fellow junta-led Sahel nation Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast's consul to Niger said on Wednesday.

The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African ...

An individual was arrested in Ouagadougou, at the time he was handing over five billion FCFA ($8.2M) in cash to soldiers who ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018, a government ...

Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. Several main roads in ...

Burkina Faso was a French colony for the first half of the 20th Century, but relations soured with Paris following a 2022 ...

Burkina Faso is reportedly considering reinstating the death penalty which was outlawed in 2018. Justice Minister Rodrigue Bayala said that the issue of the death penalty is being discussed, and "will ...

Traore respects public funds. No Land Cruiser V8s in his government. He bought two cheap Toyota SUVs for heads of state to use when they visit ...

The country’s Foreign Minister told AFP, “There is no room for fear, because we know what we want and where we want to go.” ...

With Burkina Faso’s head of state threatening to withdraw their licences, players in the mining sector have been trying to defuse the situation. But how long can they hold out?

A Burkina Faso government source told AFP on Saturday that the military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which ...