AWA, a leading African Airline has officially launched direct flights between Accra, (Ghana) and Ouagadougou, capital city of ...

Orange, Moov and Telecel are bracing for another consumer boycott on 8, 15 and 22 August provoked by a 5% tax to fight terrorists. In Burkina Faso, Traoré’s war tax fuels telecoms boycott - The Africa ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations. By Monika Pronczuk ...

West Africa, meanwhile, has a history of young men seizing power as exemplified by John Jerry Rawlings in Ghana, Samuel Doe in Liberia and Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, all in the 1980s.

The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once known for its lively arts scene. Now, it is a country torn apart by Islamist extremists and the government’s brutal effort to drive them out.

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Inside a massive U.S. military exercise in Africa to counter terrorism 06:44. Johannesburg — The military junta that seized power in Burkina Faso less than two years ago announced a law ...

Burkina Faso is one of several West African nations in the Sahel region, including Mali and Niger, that have been combating Islamist insurgencies. The military seized power in a 2022 coup, ...

Recent developments in Ghana during the inauguration of President John Mahama have raised more questions than answers about the current state of affairs on the African continent. Critics, analysts ...

At 36, Burkina Faso's Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the world's youngest president - in stark contrast to Africa's average leader age of 63.

The mediator sent to Burkina Faso by West Africa’s main political and economic bloc ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou, on Tuesday said he was satisfied by a meeting with the country’s new military ...

Denmark said Monday it was shutting its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso as part of its new Africa strategy, as military coups have "severely limited the scope for action in the Sahel region".