Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

Burkina Faso’s Justice Ministry announced that approximately 1,200 people convicted in connection with the coup attempt would ...

Burkina Faso's military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025, for reporting on the government crackdown on the media, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities arrested Guezouma ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso's ruling military junta arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights ...

Burkina Faso were dominate at home when they hosted Djibouti on Match Day 5 of the qualifiers. The Stallions secured a much-needed victory following a slow start to the qualifiers. Nigeria and South ...

Burkina Faso’s head of state, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to build 200 mosques in the country. He urged the kingdom to rather invest in essential ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has rescued Sambo Umar Labibo, a kidnapped Burkina Faso national, from a notorious syndicate operating within the Durumi Internally Displaced Persons ...

“We are worried that the ‘Boy Scouts’ in Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso would be having a good laugh tonight as they read that the spineless ECOWAS Chair has declared military rule in one of ...

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.

President John Dramani Mahama will embark on a working visit to Burkina Faso on Monday, March 10, 2025, as part of his ongoing diplomatic engagements with Ghana’s West African neighbors. During his ...