Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.

Members of the French DGSE were 'held hostage' for a year in Ouagadougou, accused of espionage by putsch leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré. It took bitter negotiations and the decisive intervention of ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamist extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and traumatized, they fled in search of ...

with a record number of attacks and civilians killed both by Islamic militants and government forces. The violence in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso has killed more than 3,470 people in the last six ...

The ruling junta has since joined forces with neighboring countries to form the Alliance of Sahel States. The alliance’s three countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — have each struggled ...

A court in Burkina Faso has sentenced two people to life in ... Two attackers were killed by security forces in a counter-assault at the time of the attack. The victims included 10 Burkinabes ...

Junta leader of Burkina Faso Captain Ibrahim Traore lambasts French ... #ibrahimtraore #frenchpresident ‘Imperialist Forces’: Burkina Junta Leader Lambasts Macron For Insulting All ‘Africans ...

(EPA Images pic) Thirty-nine people have been killed in two attacks in recent days in western Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso ... by defence and security forces launched attacks on ...

with a record number of attacks and civilians killed both by Islamic militants and government forces. The violence in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso has killed more than 3,470 people in the last six ...