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

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

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 ...

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the ... perceptions of military rule and the dynamics of the political environment in the Sahel and the rest of the ...

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.

OUAGADOUGOU - Four political activists in Burkina Faso, belonging to a political movement denouncing civilian massacres blamed on the army and allied militias, have been kidnapped, their group ...