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More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts another academic ...
One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and religious leaders, piling pressure on the ruling junta of a country where ...
16 December – ECOWAS approves the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the bloc effective January 2025 but gives them until July 2025 to reconsider. [ 25 ] 19 December – Four French soldiers detained in Ouagadougou on charges of spying since 2023 are released following negotiations between the Burkinabe government and France ...
Much of the violence was caused by the al-Qaeda-aligned Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin and it's affiliates in Burkina Faso and the Islamic State – Sahil Province, which have besieged towns and launched deadly attacks on Burkinabe soldiers and pro-government militiamen.
Since 2019, northern Burkina Faso has been embroiled in two jihadist insurgencies by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, both predominantly-Fulani organizations that attack civilians along ethnic and religious lines. [1]
The images the man sent AP and the interviews with the three survivors are rare firsthand accounts amid a stark increase in civilian killings by Burkina Faso’s security forces as the junta str
The latest news is very worrying, regarding the detention of President Kaboré, and the occupation of national radio and television by elements of the army. Yesterday I spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso Rosine Coulibaly and the President of the European Council Charles Michel spoke with the President of Burkina Faso ...
(Reuters) -Burkina Faso has suspended the radio broadcasts of BBC Africa and the U.S-funded Voice of America (VOA) for two weeks over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing ...