Burkina Faso's military officials, political parties and civil society leaders on Friday officially designated army captain Ibrahim Traore as the country's transitional president, two...
Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the...
DAKAR: Attackers raided an industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one civilian,...
Burkina Faso's new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared president by the country's top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and...
Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in the hope of reducing their ability to spread the often deadly disease
The attack came two days after French special forces freed four foreign hostages in the north of the country in an overnight raid that cost the lives of two soldiers.
OUAGADOUGOU: A Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso that left 16 people dead, including eight gunmen,...
OUAGADOUGOU: More than 18 people, including at least eight foreigners were shot dead in a Turkish restaurant in Burkina Faso, officials said Monday, in...
BURKINA FASO: Seventeen people have been killed and eight injured in a “terrorist attack” on a restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital, the government said...
OUAGADOUGOU: Security forces ended a siege by al Qaeda fighters at a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday, killing three gunmen and freeing 126 hostages, the West African nation's security minister said.
OUAGADOUGOU: Pro-coup demonstrators in Burkina Faso on Sunday stormed a hotel due to host talks aimed at restoring a civilian interim government and attacked participants arriving for the meeting, witnesses said.
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's army cleared thousands of protesters from the capital and opened fire at state TV headquarters on Sunday, killing one person, as it sought to restore order following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore two days ago.