Residents of Tanwalbougou in the eastern part of Burkina Faso are currently fleeing their ... a counter-insurgency expert ...

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms. Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem had been ...

This was made known by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert focused on the Lake Chad region ... The government of Burkina Faso has not issued an official statement on the massacre as ...

Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has granted a new gold mining licence to the Russian firm Nordgold, according to the minutes of a cabinet meeting seen by AFP on Friday. Gold production in ...

In the Lake Chad Basin, porous borders have allowed ... security environment is the political situation in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali. The recent withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States ...

April 25 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on ...

Based on an assessment of the primary constraints faced by poor and vulnerable households, social protection programs in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal were complemented with an ...

Women and girls in Burkina Faso are being discriminated against by a system that won’t let them make decisions about their education, healthcare and contraception. We’re campaigning for the ...

The Lake Chad region has been repeatedly attacked ... junta overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum in 2023. Along with Burkina Faso and Mali – neighbouring states where juntas also snatched power ...

Burkina Faso's junta said on Monday it had thwarted a "major plot" to sow "total chaos" that it believes originated in the Ivory Coast, as the country continues to see increased insecurity despite the ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalize on record-high gold prices ...

Before their official withdrawal in January, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their decision ... Islamist groups in West Africa’s Lake Chad region. The Multinational Joint Task Force ...