Captain Ibrahim Traoré is leading Burkina Faso to self-sufficiency by rejecting Western control and continuing Thomas Sankara’s legacy.

As part of my Ph.D. research, I investigated the changing use of the land between 2000 and 2022 in one of Burkina Faso's key wildlife reserves, the Bontioli nature reserve. Located in the south ...

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 ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Cradle of a remarkable cultural heritage and land of opportunity, with a rich and dynamic population ... five years of development progress in all the Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in neighbouring Burkina Faso, describing scenes of sometimes indiscriminate ...

The bodies of more than 200 people have been found after an attack by an al Qaeda-linked armed group in Burkina Faso.