F ollowing the mediation of the King, Ibrahim Traoré, President of the Republic of Burkina Faso, has accepted His request for the release of four French nationals, detained in Ouagadougou since ...

the reigning king of the Mossi, the largest community in Burkina Faso, and a symbol of tradition in the country and the region, has won the 2017 Macky Sall Prize for Dialogue in Africa ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.

Morocco King Mohammed VI will begin Sunday a three-nation African tour, including Gabon, Senegal and Burkina Faso, according to <i>MAP</i> news agency. According to a release of the Ministry of ...

Burkina Faso coup leader Captain Ibrahim Traore ...

(Nairobi) – Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of ...

The bodies of more than 200 people have been found after an attack by an al Qaeda-linked armed group in Burkina Faso.

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

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.

Kunle Afolayan’s string of successes as a filmmaker is indisputable. The records are there. The internationally-recognized ...