has affirmed the country's commitment to aiding Burkina Faso in its fight against terrorism. His comments come in the wake of a Reuters report revealing that Islamist militants fighting in Burkina ...

Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso has appealed to the government of Ghana to support his host country fight terrorism Ambassador Boniface Gambila Adagbila warned that if Ghana does not take ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Burkina Faso has long been known for its artistic and cultural festivals, whose themes range from film to ...

Burkina Faso’s armed forces have been fighting armed Islamist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara for nearly a decade. The nongovernmental organization Armed ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on Saturday. The latest execution in Burkina ...

For the second year in a row, Burkina Faso is the world’s most neglected displacement crisis, according to NRC.

Following a 2022 military coup, Burkina Faso's new leadership broke with Paris and has embraced Russia, which has sent army instructors to help Ouagadougou's fight against an Islamist insurgency.

Meanwhile, Boniface Gambila Adagbila has urged the Ghanaian government to give the Burkinabe government more support in the fight against the insurgents. He explained that the wider interest of the ...

Burkina Faso has been fighting an insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen, JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater ...

More than 150 people, including many Christians, have been massacred by Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso, local sources told the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).

Home of honest people - that's how the name of this African country translates. Burkina Faso is located in West Africa and borders six neighbors at once, landlocked. Despite its exotic name, the ...

A satellite image shows a newly built trench near Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, where hundreds of people were killed by suspected jihadists Aug. 24, 2024. In an early October massacre in northeastern ...