Africa: Burkina Faso

Seven people have been injured in western Burkina Faso after demonstrators opposed to the expulsion of local miners stor ...

Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have reportedly been killed in a series of suspected j ...

A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dolla ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres called Sunday for the military juntas in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali to hand power back to c ...

Burkina Faso has unveiled a new tactic in its fight against a bloody jihadist insurgency -- dialogue between community ...

Former Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, whose future became a major issue after he was toppled in a co ...

Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups ...

Police have released the leader of the former ruling party in Burkina Faso who was briefly arrested for criticising the ...

The leader of the former ruling party in Burkina Faso was arrested on Sunday after criticising the conditions ex-preside ...

Burkina Faso's transitional assembly took office on Tuesday, two months after a coup widely condemned by the country's ...

Eighteen soldiers have been killed in Burkina Faso amid a surge of violence, 13 in a suspected jihadist ambush and five ...

At least twelve soldiers were killed on Sunday in eastern Burkina Faso by suspected jihadists, security sources said, th ...

The Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, was awarded this week to Burkina Faso-born architect Francis ...