Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government-allied militia, Human Rights Watch said, calling on authorities to ...

GENEVA (28 March 2025) – The UN Human Rights Committee issued today its findings on Albania, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Montenegro, and Zimbabwe after examining the five States parties during the latest ...

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

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

At least eight journalists and political activists have been allegedly "kidnapped' by state actors and their whereabouts ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have imposed a 0.5% levy on imports, funding their breakaway union and marking a significant ...

The cement market in Burkina Faso is now more competitive due to the opening of Société Industrielle Sino Burkina de Ciments ...

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 ...

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 ...

The levy, which took effect last Friday, applies to all goods from ECOWAS member states entering any of the three nations, except for humanitarian aid.