As neighbors, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso have a long history of political and at times security entanglements. During Cote d'Ivoire's off-and-on civil war between 2002 and 2011, rebels who ...

Ansar Dine’s Katibat Macina is also responsible several attacks along the Mali-Burkina Faso borders. Caleb Weiss is an editor of FDD's Long War Journal and a senior analyst at the Bridgeway Foundation ...

State TV showed pictures of the rescued women and children on Friday evening Security forces in Burkina Faso have rescued 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

As Al Qaeda’s official branch in North Africa, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was undertaking the hotel siege in the capital city of the Western African country Burkina Faso ... is an editor ...

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 ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

RABAT, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, according to a source from the Moroccan ...