Burkina Faso has thwarted a major plot aimed at destabilising its security, the country’s Security Minister, Mahamadou Sana, has claimed. Speaking on state television, he said that a number of ...
Families of Burkina Faso civilians killed in a massacre have accused the army of exposing them to their militant killers by making them leave their village to dig a trench. Armed men carried out ...
Denmark said Monday, August 26, it was shutting its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso as part of a new Africa strategy, as military coups have "severely limited the scope for action in the Sahel ...
(Johannesburg) – Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshipers, Human Rights Watch said today.
At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by jihadis linked to al-Qaeda, according to videos of the violence analyzed by a ...
Barsalogho lies near the town of Kaya, a strategic point in north-central Burkina Faso that houses the last standing military force between JNIM fighters and the capital, Ouagadougou. Several ...
DAKAR (Reuters) - Hundreds were killed in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday after suspected ... The United States embassy in Ouagadougou on Tuesday said the U.S. "strongly condemns the ...
Burkina Faso’s government vowed a decisive response after over 200 were killed in the Barsalogho terror attack. Interim President Traore has made fighting terrorism ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a stark warning on September 12, saying allowing Ukraine to strike targets deep in ...
An attack about 80 miles north of Burkina Faso's capital on August 24 is one of the deadliest in nearly a decade of Islamist violence in the West African country. :: Outside Barsalogho ...
COPENHAGEN, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Denmark will close its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso after a series of military coups over the past few years, the Danish foreign ministry said on Monday ...