Issued on: 19/05/2023 - 22:43
At least 20 people were killed in a series of raids on villages in Burkina Faso's troubled north, security sources and local residents told…
Issued on: 03/01/2023 - 01:55
Burkina Faso's military junta has expelled France's ambassador, authorities said Monday, amid a surge in anti-French sentiment as the West…
Issued on: 03/12/2022 - 21:38
Burkina Faso on Saturday ordered the immediate suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) broadcasts, accusing it of putting out a "message…
Issued on: 19/10/2022 - 17:47
A net, a 30-metre pitch, and four players kicking a ball back and forth across the ground... This is "razball", a sport created in…
Issued on: 07/10/2022 - 15:45
Two videos showing parachutists jump from a plane in the skies above Burkina Faso started circulating online on September 30, with many claiming…
Issued on: 02/10/2022 - 23:28
Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba left the country for Togo Sunday two days after he himself was overthrown…
Issued on: 30/09/2022 - 12:22
Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso's presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup…
Issued on: 13/09/2022 - 03:55
Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and…
Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment over his role in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a military court ruled on Wednesday, wrapping up a…
Issued on: 06/03/2022 - 01:38
Burkina Faso's interim president Paul-Henri Damiba has approved a new government that includes the same defence minister as served under former…