President Ibrahim Traoré declared Burkina Faso is undergoing a "popular, progressive revolution" rather than following ...

But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...

Suspected fighters from the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have launched a devastating assault on Guiedougou, a village in western Burkina Faso, killing an estimated 300 people.

The woman replies that she’s in pain. Someone off camera says: “You, the Fulani people, do you think you can take over Burkina Faso? You will never! What is left for you to do here is to ...

The justice ministry in December said that some 1,200 people convicted in connection with the coup attempt would be pardoned from 1 January. Burkina Faso's ruling junta announced last May that it ...

Ibrahim Traoré, the 37-year-old president of Burkina Faso, is taking bold steps to reclaim control over the country's rich ...

As French-speaking countries celebrate International Francophone Day, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have this week announced ... Such events encourage people to express themselves in French ...

Since 2015, the unrest has killed more than 26,000 people in Burkina Faso alone, according to conflict monitor ACLED. That tally included more than 13,500 victims who have died following the ...

A new cement plant in Laongo, Burkina Faso's cement market has joined Dangote to make the market more competitive The facility was formally launched by the country's acting military president ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015 ... Traoré announced an "amnesty pardon" in December last year for several people convicted ...

Burkina Faso and its Sahel neighbours Mali and Niger are fighting a jihadist insurgency that has spread across the region since it first took root in Mali 13 years ago. Since 2015, the unrest has ...