Burkina Faso has an outstanding external debt estimated at more than $10 billion. Additionally, it owes China an unknown ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

While you were sleeping, global agencies reported the following events overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Nineteen ...

The exit of military-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is seen to ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes ...

The Alliance of the Sahel States' (AES) proposal to adopt biometric passports for member nations including Mali, Burkina Faso ...

Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, is the heartland of traditional textile weaving. Here, the streets are dotted ...

Three trucks, one carrying a spare driver, disappeared as they drove without an escort from Dori in Burkina Faso to Tera in ...

Ibrahim Traore hits back at French president saying that African leaders had ‘forgotten to say thank you" to Paris for ...

Gunfire erupted in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on Sunday after soldiers from the country’s army mutinied and seized control of a military base. Shooting was also reported at ...

They said their departure was immediate, but under the bloc's rules, their withdrawal takes effect a year after the announcement.

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region to face rising extr ...