In reality, Traore is a youthful military leader who presents himself as a reformer or even a revolutionary, striving to ...

The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is ascendant at a time when U.S. and ...

Economically desperate Nigerians and others in West Africa are ensnared with promises of dollar jobs, only to face danger and ...

Nearly a century ago, the novelist George Orwell predicted a world dominated by three great powers. Small countries would ...

Since seizing control in September 2022, insurgents continue to expand their territory ...

Insecurity is their top priority for government action.Key findings More than one-third (36%) of young Burkinabè (aged 18-35) have secondary or post-secondary education, compared to 4%-17% among older ...

Tiy Todd Burkina Faso, the “Land of the Upright People,” is a nation embodying a revolutionary declaration. Former President Thomas Sankara and today’s President Ibrahim Traoré speak to the hearts of ...

Observers are saying that foreign flags at the protests give President Trump and Republicans easy talking points as they take ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the ...

Burkina Faso’s military is responsible for the massacre of more than 130 Fulani civilians during a March attack in the country’s west, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch.

With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso’s security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...