Burkina Faso

Breaking: This Burkinabé champion is also an engineer

Hughes-Fabrice Zango is an engineer and a triple jump champion. When he is not training for the Olympic Games, he…

September 11, 2020

3 Million people in Burkina Faso face acute food insecurity

Some 3.3 million human beings are dealing with acute food insecurity in Burkina Faso at some stage in the present…

August 21, 2020

Burkina Faso ruling party endorses president for re-election

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore’s party backed him Saturday to run for re-election despite struggling to crush a…

July 12, 2020

Breaking: HRW denounces extrajudicial executions in Burkina Faso

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced recent extrajudicial executions of 180 people in Djibo, northern Burkina Faso. In a Wednesday…

July 8, 2020

Famine ravages Burkina Faso as farmers call for help

The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso has been hard hit by drought and desertification. Just east of capital…

June 16, 2020

Twenty-six killed in central Mali

Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence…

June 6, 2020

B. Faso: dozens killed in attack over weekend

10 people died in Northern Burkina Faso Sunday after an attack on a humanitarian convoy by armed terrorist groups, the…

June 1, 2020

Education: 2,500 schools closed in Burkina Faso due to unrest- HRW

Increase in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso since 2017 has led to the closure of more than 2,000 schools, according…

May 26, 2020

Burkina Faso unveils upgraded statue of Thomas Sankara

A little over a year after an initial bronze statue was unveiled of Thomas Sankara, government unveiled another – of…

May 20, 2020

Burkina Faso: Army kills 20 terrorists close to border

Security forces in Burkina Faso killed 20 terrorists in a clash near the border with Niger, the army said Wednesday.…

May 14, 2020

Burkinabe traders demonstrate to demand reopening of markets

Several hundred Burkinabè traders demonstrated Monday in Ouagadougou to demand the reopening of all the markets, which were closed at…

April 28, 2020

Burkina Faso: New killing by Islamist Armed Groups

Suspected Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso killed at least 90 civilians in 3 attacks on villages in late January…

April 23, 2020

Burkina Faso govt to probe ‘arbitrary killing of civilians’

Burkina Faso’s security forces reportedly killed 31 unarmed men in the country’s north earlier this month, according to a report…

April 21, 2020

10 police officers killed in Burkina Faso attack

Ten police officers were killed and three others injured in Burkina Faso when militants attacked the northern Sebba city, the…

March 1, 2020

Turkey condemns Burkina Faso terror attack

Foreign Ministry condemns terror attack on church in northern Burkina Faso which killed at least 24 people Turkey on Monday…

February 17, 2020

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