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 ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015, have received a presidential pardon. The troubled west African country has been run since ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...