FEEBLY shaded by trees in the blistering heat, desperate civilians throng a displacement camp in tents and ramshackle shelters after…
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BURKINA Faso, Mali, and Niger have finalised plans to form a new confederation, the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel…
BURKINA Faso has rejected “baseless accusations” that soldiers massacred 223 people in attacks in February. A Human Rights Watch report…
BURKINA Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they aired a rights report…
BURKINA Faso’s military junta has expelled three French diplomats, accusing them of “subversive activities”. France said there were “no grounds”…
YOUNGSTERS in Burkina Faso are joining the state in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) as population displacement caused by…
SOME 170 people including women and children have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public…
DOZENS of people have been shot dead at a mosque on the same day that a church was attacked, say…
AT LEAST 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern…
MALI booked a quarter-final meeting with hosts Ivory Coast by holding on to beat Burkina Faso at the 2023 Africa…
THE Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is yet to receive any direct formal…
THE military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS.…
BURKINA Faso says it has received 25,000 tonnes of free wheat from Russia. Confirming the news on Friday, one minister…
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused the Burkina Faso army of killing at least 60 civilians in drone strikes…
BAGHDAD Bounedjah’s equaliser deep into injury-time secured a draw for Algeria, denying Burkina Faso a second straight victory in the…
BERTRAND Traore scored a 96th-minute penalty to see Burkina Faso narrowly beat Mauritania in their Africa Cup of Nations opener…
RUSSIA on Thursday reopened its embassy in Burkina Faso after a gap of nearly 32 years after the West African…
BURKINA Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being taken away from his house by people…
AT LEAST 40 civilians were killed in a militant attack in the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo at the…
THE European Union has called for an investigation into the reported killing of around 100 people in Burkina Faso earlier…