MALI, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three rogue states that have formed an Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) to resist…
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BURKINA Faso’s junta has announced a ban on all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military seized…
TOGO has arrested and extradited Burkina Faso’s former leader to his home country, after authorities in Ouagadougou accused him of…
MALI and Burkina Faso have restricted United States citizens from entering their countries following President Donald Trump’s visa restrictions. The…
MALI and Burkina Faso say they will bar US citizens from entering their countries in response to a similar move…
AT an airforce base in Bamako, Mali’s army ruler General Assimi Goita presided over a ceremony marking the creation of…
THE Nigerian Air Force C-130 crew, earlier detained in Burkina Faso and released on Thursday, has continued its mission from…
BURKINA Faso authorities have released 11 Nigerian soldiers and a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft that were detained following an…
THE House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to meet with senior officials in the ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs…
SIX days after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made a precautionary landing in Burkina Faso, the fate of the…
NIGERIA’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, on Thursday confirmed that the 11 Nigerian soldiers aboard the Air Force C-130…
THE Federal Government has opened high-level diplomatic discussions with the authorities in Burkina Faso to secure the release of a…
REGIONAL tensions escalated on Monday after the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) comprising Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso condemned the…
BURKINA Faso’s military government has refused to take in deportees from the US, as Washington suspended issuing visas in the…
BURKINA Faso’s military government says it has arrested eight members of a Dutch-based humanitarian organisation, accusing them of “spying and…
MALI, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have…
BURKINA Faso says it has removed visa fees for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of…
BURKINA Faso’s transitional parliament has unanimously passed a bill criminalising homosexual acts, reversing more than six decades of legal tolerance…
BURKINA Faso and Mali did not send representatives to a continental military meeting hosted by Nigeria Monday as relations between…
BURKINA Faso’s junta on Monday declared the top resident UN official “persona non grata” for a United Nations report which…