Burkina Faso has taken a big step toward changing its jail system by instituting a reform that links offenders' sentences to ...

My dad threatened me saying, "If you don’t go to join your husband I will kill you."' 13-year-old 'Maria' spoke to us at the women's shelter pictured above in May 2015 In some parts of Burkina Faso, ...

He stressed that Burkina Faso’s government has deliberately encouraged farming by providing irrigation and support services, allowing farmers to cultivate crops efficiently. In contrast ...

A West African organisation is working with local churches and rural communities in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to support ...

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She told the BBC her husband was killed in front of her in 2024 during a raid on their village in eastern Burkina Faso by fighters from JNIM. "They grabbed the men, and they beat them to death. My ...

Burkina Faso extends amnesty to those involved in failed 2015 coup Two generals considered the masterminds of the failed coup, Compaoré's former chief of staff Gilbert Diendéré and head of ...

(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 ...

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.

The Economic Community of West African States hopes to use this time to convince the three nations to stay in the bloc. Groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL accused of ‘massacring villagers ...