Burkina Faso’s military rulers have dissolved the country’s independent electoral commission, authorities said. Since taking power in a 2022 coup, the West African country's military leaders have ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, welcomes Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore for the talks in the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025.

Burkina Faso, under military leadership since a 2022 coup, has played host to contingents of the Wagner mercenary force, ... Moscow has so far invested very little in Africa, ...

As the Greens regulation spokesperson Francisco Hernandez told RNZ, one UK study showed that AI would reduce public service ...

Hundreds of people, some waving Russian flags and supporting a coup by Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim, gathered in protest in front of the French embassy on Saturday ...

BAMAKO - The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit Moscow this week as the Sahel nations and Russia seek to strengthen ties, the three African countries' foreign ministries ...

Burkina Faso, with 23 million people, is at the epicenter of that violence, and its interim president has become a leading proponent of working with Russia in an effort to stem it.

Moscow dismissed claims Thursday that Russian mercenary group Wagner is operating in Burkina Faso, while committing to strengthen its ties to the West African nation plagued by jihadist violence.

Sergey Lavrov, who has made several trips to Africa in recent years, this week stopped in Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso and Chad. Moscow has aggressively expanded its military ...

Jan 25 (Reuters) - A contingent of Russian military personnel flew into Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first significant deployment of Russian troops to ...

MOSCOW. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu discussed military cooperation Tuesday with his counterpart from Burkina Faso, Col. Kassoum Coulibaly, at a meeting in Moscow.