Ghana and Mali battle for place in last eight at Women's Africa Cup of Nations Ghana and Mali fight for a place on Thursday in a last-eight showdown with tournament debutants Malawi. Both sides go ...

Saturday, August 2 Tanzania 2-0 Burkina Faso Tanzania kicked off their CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 campaign in style with a 2-0 victory over Burkina Faso before fully-packed Benjamin ...

(Nairobi) – Burkina Faso authorities should urgently investigate and publicly report on the whereabouts of a journalist and two prominent critics of the country’s military junta, Human Rights Watch ...

The Sahel is the region most affected by terrorism, accounting for over half of all deaths from terrorism in 2024, and 19% of attacks globally, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2025 which ...

Editor’s note: This story contains a graphic image and descriptions of violence. Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town in ...

An Islamist armed group massacred at least 133 people in the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, on August 24, 2024, largely civilians forced to build a trench to protect the town with a military base.

MOSCOW, June 5 (Reuters) - Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the west African country boost its defence capabilities and fight terrorism, Russian ...

Sources: Burkinabé authorities; IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ Percent of beginning-of-period broad money. 2/ Includes large, one-off VAT reimbursement in 2021. 3/ Includes the fonds de ...