I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms ...

Russia is aiding military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to bolster a 5,000-strong force against jihadist ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to release recently detained journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem after they appeared in military ...

Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been plagued by jihadist violence from groups linked to the Islamic State group or Al-Qaeda. In the latest attack, a security source in Tapoa province said an army ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015, have received a presidential pardon. The troubled west African country has been run ...

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 ...

March 15 (Reuters) - 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 ...