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 ...

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 ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was on Wednesday sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the ...

"[IRGC Brig. Gen. Abdolreza] Shahlai is in charge of all military, political, and economic matters related to the regime’s intervention in Yemen, including all Houthi operations and attacks ...

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 ...