With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso’s security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, ...

In banning most travel to the United States by citizens of 12 countries, President Donald Trump is fine-tuning a playbook ...

For Rinaldo Depagne, the Africa deputy director of the International ... relations with both France and America have been frosty. A recent example being the claim by the head of the US Africa Command, ...

After two historic Russia-Africa summits, several conferences and bilateral meetings intended to move Russia's relations from ...

Gen. Michael Langley of the Marine Corps and head of the U.S. Africa Command said Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a ...

A video of Pope Leo addressing media professionals has been altered to show him praising Burkina Faso’s military leader ...

Burkina Faso is poised to increase its industrial gold mining this year as a project by Mauritius’s Soleil Resources ...

Originally conceived to foster economic cooperation and regional integration, ECOWAS has since expanded its mandate to encompass regional collective security through Monitoring Group ECOMOG for ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists ...

According to Mr. Compaoré, “there was an exchange of practical experiences in the classroom and that allowed both the participants from Canada and Burkina Faso to learn from each other”. Beverley Park ...