PREMIUM TIMES reports that the three junta-led countries made their official exit from ECOWAS earlier in the year.

Several officers of the Burkinabe armed forces were arrested, and two of them reportedly relieved of their duties as corps ...

Women and girls in Burkina Faso are being discriminated against by a system that won’t let them make decisions about their education, healthcare and contraception. We’re campaigning for the ...

Burkina Faso did not pay off all its external debt in March 2025, contrary to a claim shared on social media. Facebook posts on March 29 and 30, some shared hundreds of times, said Burkina Faso ...

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms. Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem had been ...

(Nairobi) – Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025, for reporting on the government crackdown on the media, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities ...

Four decades ago a 34-year-old army captain from Burkina Faso stood before the UN General Assembly and demanded a new world order. The speech, which was watched eagerly by young people across west ...

OUAGADOUGOU - Four political activists in Burkina Faso, belonging to a political movement denouncing civilian massacres blamed on the army and allied militias, have been kidnapped, their group ...

Fortuna Mining (NYSE: FSM, TSX: FVI) agreed to sell its Burkina Faso operations to Mauritius-based Soleil Resources International for about $130 million cash. The sale represents “a prudent exit ...