Burkina Faso

The mayor of Boundore commune, Sihanri Osangola Brigadie, said the attack occurred in the town of Pansy in Yagha province. The roughly 20...Read More

Ouagadougou: Thirty-six civilians were killed on Monday in an attack on a market in Sanmatenga province, which is located in the north of...Read More

Ouagadougou: A militant attack in northern Burkina Faso on Tuesday killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, the president said, one...Read More

Bamako: Mali’s PM and cabinet resigned on Thursday following a motion of no confidence in the government over its handling of violence in...Read More

London: At least 17 people were killed and another eight were wounded in a suspected terror attack at a Turkish restaurant in Burkina Fas...Read More

Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso’s government said today it has thwarted a “vast conspiracy” aiming to overthrow the president and sieze power b...Read More

Grand-Bassam : Four gunmen armed with machine guns and hand grenades went on the rampage at a popular hotel in Ivory Coast, leaving at le...Read More

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has sold its operations in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone to French telecom giant Orange, the firm announced on W...Read More

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel today said it will sell its operations in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone to France-based Orange.

Ouagadougou: Roch Marc Christian Kabore won Burkina Faso’s presidential election, official results showed, after a year of turmoil that s...Read More

Bamako: A gun attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali near the border with Burkina Faso left two policemen and two civilians dead, sec...Read More

Bamako:  Eleven soldiers were killed in a “terrorist” attack on their camp in northern Mali’s Timbuktu region, a government statement sai...Read More

Ouagadougou: A member of a civil society organisation said that three names were drawn up from about 20 nominations for the position of B...Read More