One security source in Tapoa province said an army detachment from the main city of Diapaga was targeted in a “violent attack ...

President Traore, 37, took power in a military coup last year with a promise that he would continue to earn the same salary ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

Burkina Faso’s press freedom faces a growing crackdown, with the abduction of two journalists just days after they publicly ...

Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to urgently disclose the whereabouts of journalists ...

Neighbouring Burkina Faso had already made the same decision, OIF spokesperson Oria K. Vande Weghe told French-language ...

Four political activists in Burkina Faso, belonging to a political movement denouncing civilian massacres blamed on the army ...

On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, sparking fears he has been forcibly ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five ...