Global civil society alliance CIVICUS rated Burkina Faso's civic space as 'repressed' and added the country to its Monitor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo ...

CIVICUS placed Burkina Faso on its watchlist after leader Ibrahim Traoré's regime dissolved political parties, suspended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Reporters Without Borders, Burkinabe journalist Atiana Serge Oulon speaks at a news conference in Dakar, ...

On a hot Friday in June 2024, Adama*, a 32-year-old high school teacher, was quickening his pace on a dusty road in a sparsely populated suburb of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso‘s capital. He had left work ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Burkina Faso's ruling military junta arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights Watch ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s authorities secretly held and abused a prominent investigative journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift detention facility in the capital, an international ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta appointed a new prime minister, a day after dissolving the government without providing any reason. Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel ...