At 37, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré stands as the world’s youngest head of state, a figure Western media often ...

Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM has claimed responsibility for an attack targeting a military post in Burkina Faso's northern Loroum province in which the group said 60 soldiers were killed, the SITE ...

Kabul has met with envoys from Ouagadougou and Niamey in recent weeks, an unexpected move given that Sahel militants see the ...

Traore, who was in Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, is Africa’s youngest leader ...

The military coups in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have resulted in an avalanche of false information, especially about the ...

Mali’s media regulatory body says it is banning a French television channel in the country due to “defamatory remarks” it made about a pro-democracy demonstration in the capital earlier this month ...

A key figure in West Africa’s banking sector, the serial Burkinabè entrepreneur has successfully led major regional expansion ...

Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore has sparked a social media debate, with some in Africa praising him and ...

Taliban-controlled media say the group’s acting ambassador to Iran has met with his Burkina Faso counterpart in the Iranian ...

A jihadi group aligned with Al-Qaida known as Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, which is active in the Sahel ...

An attack on a military base in northern Burkina Faso killed multiple soldiers, while a separate assault in the south left dozens of civilians dead, sources told Reuters on Monday, underscoring ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the military of Burkina Faso on Monday of orchestrating massacres of Fulani civilians between March 14 and April 22 under the auspices of a counter-terrorism ...