Will Linder, a retired CIA officer who runs a risk consultancy, said the attacks in Bamako and Barsalogho showed that efforts ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

A Reuters analysis of data from U.S. crisis-monitoring group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) found that the ...

Burkina Faso has been battling jihadist groups, including those linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS), since 2016.

Experts told the BBC that the scale of the Barsalogho attack points to a larger problem in the Burkina Faso's security architecture. “The country is yet to come up with a security strategy that ...

The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has ...

Analysis - Political interests must be set aside to prevent illegal mining from devastating the country's forests, farmland ...

September 22, 2024: In the African country of Mali, Russian Wagner Group mercenaries went looking for some low-risk, high-paying work during July 2024. What they got was a massacre that left all the ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has raised an urgent alarm about the potential for public unrest ...