Earlier in July 2025, Burkina Faso authorities released five journalists and a human rights activist who had been unlawfully ...

Residents in northern Burkina Faso say an attack by an armed group on a military base has left about 50 soldiers dead.

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and ...

Burkina Faso will compete in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) for the fourth time in its history. Drawn into Group B, ...

Burkina Faso drew the first blood at the ongoing CAA Africa U-18/U-20 Athletics Championships yesterday by grabbing a gold medal in the U-18 women’s triple jump.

The Burkina Faso Football Federation released on July 14 the list of 25 players called up by Issa Balboné for CHAN 2024. The coach of the local Stallions is relying on a core of domestic talent, ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only ophthalmologist specializing in treating children, checks Isaka Diallo who has lost vision in his left eye at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in the ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people. Treating ...

Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks sweeping across several West African nations, especially Burkina Faso ...

Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children's basic needs.

Burkina Faso’s progress, despite the circumstances of the Traoré regime’s ascent to power and his consolidation of authority, has not only served as a refreshing departure from the typically ...