With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso's security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he views as a threat. The post With Security Unraveling, Burkina Faso's ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in Burkina Faso, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and contact details. Skip to main content ... UNHCR continues its efforts to promote ...

Boosted by WMO technical assistance to the Hydromet Burkina Faso project and by CREWS Togo, Burkina Faso and Togo have ...

A World Bank-led ethnographic study reveals how the lack of affordable childcare in urban Burkina Faso forces low-income ...

Burkina Faso’s human rights situation deteriorated considerably in 2023, ... Dassa is in an area where the JNIM is known to operate and carry out attacks. On January 26, ...

Burkina Faso’s military regime will extend its rule by five years under a new agreement reached during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman Colonel Moussa Diallo said on ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore arrives at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2025 (RIA Novosti photo by Stanislav Krasilnikov via AP). Click to share on Twitter ...

By Ibrahim Abode, Bawku Municipality Ghana-Burkina Faso border points have proved convenient conduits for the illegal movement of large volumes of cargo either way across them, a media investigation ...

The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once known for its lively arts scene. Now, it is a country torn apart by Islamist extremists and the government’s brutal effort to drive them out.

Abidjan, Ivory Coast — Military-led Burkina Faso has frozen the "assets and resources" of more than 100 people, including ex-president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and two jihadist groups over ...

Political relations France and Burkina Faso continue their political dialogue. France ... energy) and local development (rural and urban, particularly in Ouagadougou). Expertise France has six ...