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

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 since ...

Human Rights Watch says video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to ...

Burkina Faso has experienced a convergence of crises, including inter-ethnic violence, armed conflict, poverty, inequalities, food insecurity, and environmental change. As a result, over 1.4 million ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights Watch ...

What is needed now is clarity of purpose and a focus on the kinds of public goods that multiply opportunity. Thank you for reading Nation.AfricaShow plansIn just two years, Burkina Faso has ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human ...

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.