THREE top military officers in Burkina Faso have been arrested and charged with plotting against the ruling junta, the country’s…
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AS a delegation from the West African bloc ECOWAS arrived in Niger on Saturday for talks with the military officers…
A ROMANIAN national kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in 2015 in Burkina Faso, has been released after eight years in…
SCIENTISTS have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to…
REPORTS from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, say bursts of gunfire have been heard in the early hours of…
A MILLION more people could be facing hunger in Burkina Faso in the next few months as the lack of…
SECURITY sources in Burkina Faso say unidentified assailants have killed 31 soldiers and three members of the Homeland Defence Volunteers…
SUSPECTED militants have killed about a dozen villagers and wounded several more in western Burkina Faso, security and local sources…
TWO Nigerian girls have been burnt to death by their boyfriends in Burkina Faso, A Catholic source claims. The incident…
AN ATTACK on a military base in eastern Burkina Faso has killed 33 soldiers and wounded 12 others in the…
SOME 44 people have been killed after two deadly attacks in northern Burkina Faso on Thursday, officials have said. The…
THE authorities in Ghana say 1,000 soldiers and police officers are being deployed to a north-eastern border town after gunmen…
BURKINA Faso has expelled journalists from two leading French newspapers, in the latest move against France by Burkina Faso’s military…
THE Federal Government has summoned the Burkina Faso envoy to Nigeria, Pascal Gouba, over alleged murder of 16 Nigerians who…
AT least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected terrorists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on…
THE body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried Thursday alongside 12 comrades at the spot…
TEN people were killed when a makeshift gold mine collapsed in western Burkina Faso, a miners’ association said on Thursday.…
FRANCE has agreed to a request from Burkina Faso’s military leaders to withdraw all its troops from the country. Burkina…
BURKINA Faso has confirmed that it wants 400 French troops stationed there to leave within a month. Government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel…
SECURITY forces in Burkina Faso have rescued over 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant jihadists…