Burkina Faso

Africa's premier film festival, FESPACO, opened in the capital Ouagadougou on Saturday with a colourful high-energy cere ...

The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary leader and former presid ...

As the rain drizzles down, visitors flock to the Thomas Sankara memorial in Ouagadougou to snap photos or buy souvenirs ...

The long-awaited murder trial of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara opened on Monday, 34 years after his ...

Dubbed Africa's Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara wanted to decolonise minds in Burkina Faso and across the continent, but h ...

Fourteen men, including a former president, will go on trial in Burkina Faso from Monday over the assassination in 1987 ...

Suspected jihadists killed 14 soldiers in an attack in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the defence ministry said, in th ...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has reported that at least 480 civilians were killed in jihadist attacks in Burkina ...

The impoverished Sahel state of Burkina Faso was plunged once more into mourning on Thursday after suspected jihadists k ...

Burkina Faso's president declared three days of national mourning from Thursday after suspected jihadists killed 47 peop ...

Francois Compaore, brother of Burkina Faso's ousted president, on Monday condemned attempts to tie him to the murder of ...

Two suspected jihadists including a local commander have been detained after a massacre in northeast Burkina Faso this m ...

Around 10 policemen have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso and several more offic ...