Residents in northern Burkina Faso say an attack by an armed group on a military base has left about 50 soldiers dead.

A jihadist attack in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed "several dozens" of soldiers and civilians, two security sources and a local source told AFP on Friday.

Burkina Faso has said it considers the death of a Burkinabé activist in custody in Ivory Coast to be an "assassination".

Hundreds of protesters clad in white flooded the streets of Ouagadougou on Tuesday, demanding justice for Alain Traoré, a prominent social media activist known as Alino Faso, whose death in an Ivorian ...

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Luc Pagbelguem, a journalist with the private television station BF1, and Boukari Ouoba, vice-president of the Burkina ...

While speaking at the University of Ibadan on “global fragility and security management in Nigeria”, the Chief of Defence ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Burkina Faso’s military rulers have dissolved the country’s independent electoral commission, authorities ...

Attack by militants on a military base in Burkina Faso has killed about 50 soldiers, community leader and resident say.

The project in Burkina Faso is earmarked to deliver 150MWp of solar PV power integrated with a 50MW battery energy storage ...

Burkina Faso will be looking to cause an upset when they face tournament favourites, Senegal in the 2021 Africa Cup of ...

Jonathan Pitroipa believes his country has what it takes to be the dark horse at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, set to take place in Morocco from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026. The former ...