Burkina Faso’s military junta has closed the capital’s main Sunni mosque after nearly 100 supporters of a detained preacher ...

It is the latest salvo in the ongoing crackdown on independent organisations by the military authorities which seized power ...

Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup in 2022 Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget ...

KAYA, BURKINA FASO – “When I save the life of a child, my heart is filled with joy,” says Aminata Zabré, who oversees nutrition at the UNICEF-supported Health and Social Center in Sector 6 in Kaya, ...

Reporters Without Borders says Burkina Faso's authorities secretly detained and abused a prominent journalist and dozens of ...

Coup spokesman Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reads a statement in a studio in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday evening, Sept. 30, 2022. [RTB via AP] More than a dozen soldiers seized ...

The Berlin-based architect from Burkina Faso is the first African and first black person to receive this distinction, the first in four decades of the prestigious award. After studying carpentry and ...

As Burkina Faso trot out of the tunnel and stand shoulder-to-shoulder before their AFCON semi-final against Senegal, the playing of their national anthem “Ditanye” will be particularly meaningful.

Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside a flooded zinc mine in Burkina Faso, the government and the mine owner said on Tuesday, all but extinguishing hope that eight ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Gunshots rang out Saturday in Burkina Faso's capital amid signs of lingering tensions a day after a group of military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect whose playful ephemeral commissions have graced Kensington Gardens and the Coachella Valley and whose low-cost, technically innovative permanent structures have had ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader has offered his resignation as long as his security and other conditions were met, and the new junta leader who overthrew him has accepted ...