But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...

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The lands minister made this allegation during the visit of Banjul Muslim elders to the president during the Koriteh feast.

I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Niger Republic will visit Moscow this week as part of efforts to ...

Friday's 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations action saw Gambia rout Somalia, while Mali qualified for the knockout stages as one of only two teams still with a 100 per cent record.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Jaroslaw Wieczorek, Mission Chief for Burkina Faso, held meetings in Ouagadougou during April 1–8 in the context of the third review of Burkina Faso's ...

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Women and girls in Burkina Faso are being discriminated against by a system that won’t let them make decisions about their education, healthcare and contraception. We’re campaigning for the ...