Last week a government source told the media that Burkina Faso’s military junta plans to reinstate the death penalty, which ...

A newspaper seller with newspapers in Ouagadougou headlining the September 2022 military coup The media environment in Burkina Faso is relatively robust but US-based NGO Freedom House says the ...

In what was widely seen as punishment for his strident criticism of Burkina Faso's military rulers, anaesthetist Arouna Louré was forced to go to the front lines of the battle against jihadists ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

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 ...

More than 150 people, including many Christians, have been massacred by Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso, local sources told the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).

With Burkina Faso’s head of state threatening to withdraw their licences, players in the mining sector have been trying to defuse the situation. But how long can they hold out?

Dozens of people have been shot dead at a mosque on the same day that a church was attacked, say the authorities in Burkina Faso. It was during early-morning prayers on Sunday that the gunmen ...

Burkina Faso will return to the Africa Cup of Nations finals after a last-16 exit at the 2023 edition earlier this year Burkina Faso and Cameroon have both booked places at the 2025 Africa Cup of ...

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an annual per capita income of less than $720. The country faces serious underdevelopment, with high population growth and low education ...

TASS/. Russia played the leading role in liberating the world from Nazism, a historical fact that is often downplayed if not entirely forgotten, Ibrahim Traore, president of Burkina Faso ...

One of the main discoveries of a new study is the identification of new variants in genes associated with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, the primary vectors of malaria in West ...