Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position ... During the 1980s and nearing the end of the cold war, Sankara came to power as ideological ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in neighbouring Burkina Faso ... JNIM do not seek war against Ghana," the ...

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 ...

The Conference of Civil Societies and Centre for Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMICO) has said the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West Africa States ...

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world ... Our work has enabled national, regional, and local state and civil society practitioners to identify communities most vulnerable to ...

and jihadist violence in Burkina Faso increases, more large-scale terrorist attacks in the country become a growing concern. Article has been updated with new information regarding JNIM’s official ...