With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso's security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, ...

What did the nations of Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, the Republic of Congo and Sudan have in common, ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is sounding the alarm: nearly 29 million people ...

He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they ...

Australia-listed West African Resources, which owns and operates the Sanbrado, Kiaka and Toega projects in Burkina Faso, has ...

The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has acknowledged a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the North East, particularly in Borno State, describing it as part of the insurgents' broader ...

Following visits to Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko arrived in Conakry on Sunday ...

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recommended the activation of the ECOWAS Standby ...

Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says he is optimistic about the return of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to the ...

Foreign Minister Tuggar has said ECOWAS’ door remains open to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s eventual return.

A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the ...