Human Rights Watch says video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked to a "gruesome" massacre western Burkina Faso that left dozens dead this week, Human Rights Watch said late on Friday.

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

President John Dramani Mahama will travel at the weekend travel to three-Sahelian countries- Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. A ...

Le Burkina Faso s’est rapproché du Mali et du Niger en constituant le 16 septembre 2023 l’Alliance des Etats du Sahel, qui s’est muée en confédération le 6 juillet dernier. Le 28 janvier 2024, par un ...

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors.

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in ... It is telling that the bulk of the ...

The three military-led West African nations—Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—have formally withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a statement on Wednesday ...

Portraits of the three countries' leaders were splashed on posters throughout ... which like its counterparts in Burkina Faso and Niger has kicked out French forces. Mali's authorities, who ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.Tens ...