Traore take ova di rotating presidency from Mali military leader Gen Assimi Goita during one summit wey hold for Bamako.

Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel detained after an emergency landing. Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar announced the resolution on Thursday.

People attend the inauguration of the mausoleum for Burkina Faso's legendary leader Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, Saturday, ...

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore arrives to the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025.

Russia accuses Western powers of waging a “dirty war” to destabilise Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as Moscow backs their new Sahel alliance and talks up Africa’s “second awakening”. With Lavrov ...

Now under direct Kremlin control, the Africa Corps props up military juntas while shipping home gold to help finance the war ...

Explore the challenges facing the International Criminal Court amid sanctions from the United States and Russia.

A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting intensifies against militants linked to al-Qaida. Strips of fabric tied ...

MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The West is attempting to destabilize the situation in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the countries with which Russia’s cooperation is gaining momentum, Russian Deputy ...

Greetings on behalf of the Belarusian head of state have been sent to the leadership of the Russian Federation, leaders of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, state figures, political ...

Military rulers in west Africa's Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in their neighbourhood, analysts said.