Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018, a government source told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Human Rights Watch has urged authorities to "promptly and thoroughly" investigate the mass killing of civilians in the town ...

EVANGELICAL churches in Burkina Faso have begun a month of prayer and fasting after ... “torching buildings and burning some ...

Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a ...

An Islamist armed group's massacre of at least 133 people shows the inadequacy of Burkina Faso's government efforts to ...

It said the reporter described a jihadist attack on Bamako last month as "courageous", criticised security operations and provided an unfounded death toll for an attack on a Burkina Faso town that ...

Burkina Faso has been battling jihadist groups ... old farmer who witnessed an attack by alleged JNIM fighters in the town of Sindo, Hauts-Bassins region, on June 11. “We found bodies in ...

Burkina Faso's foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on Saturday as "suiting" his country better than its historic ties with France.

On Oct. 6, an Islamic terrorist attack took place in the town of Manni in the African ... According to ACN, Burkina Faso has the highest level of extremist violence in the entire Sahel region ...

Burkina Faso has since 2015 suffered regular jihadist ... Survivors say up to 300 people were killed on Saturday in the northern town of Barsalogho, in an attack which was claimed by an al-Qaeda ...

referring to the recent attack in Bamako and a 2023 attack on the Burkina Faso town of Djibo. An investigation has been opened against Nasr on charges of criminal conspiracy, complicity in acts of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a militant attack earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.