Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic will stop being members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from ...

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The 66th summit of ECOWAS, or the Economic Community of West African states, is getting underway with Mali, Burkina Faso and ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta issued a decree Friday dismissing Prime Minister ...

Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has issued a decree sacking the prime minister and dissolving the government OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has issued a ...

Military-led Burkina Faso has frozen the "assets and resources" of more than 100 people, including ex-president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and two jihadist groups over the "financing of terrorism ...

Burkina Faso's military government has announced it will extend junta rule for another five years. The country's ruler, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, will also be able to contest the next presidential ...

The bodies of 28 people who were shot dead have been discovered in Burkina Faso's north-western town of Nouna, the government has said. A civil society group blamed the killings on armed civilians ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

More than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, were massacred by Burkina Faso's military in a single day this year, Human Rights Watch says. In the attacks on 25 February, the army ...

Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has appointed a new prime minister, a day after dissolving the government without providing any reason OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso ...

Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta appointed a new Prime Minister, a day after dissolving the government without providing any reason. Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, until now ...