Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

Armed men brutally murdered two catechists in Burkina Faso while they were travelling home last month.The attack by unidentified gunmen took place near the commune of Bondokuy in the Diocese of ...

At least 10 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an attack near the Burkina Faso border, the Nigerien army announced Wednesday ...

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 ...

UN Human Rights Office should follow up on transnational repression around the world, as well as abuses in China and Burkina Faso Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe.

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...

In the nation's tenth Olympic appearance, Burkina Faso has finally earned its first Olympic medal, courtesy of triple jump athlete Hugues Fabrice Zango. Zango's jump of 17.47m earned him a bronze ...

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.

Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered ... to overstep his mark in the battle for Russian influence in Africa. Men dressed in military uniform are seen mutilating a dead body in ...