Burkina Faso has long been known for its artistic and cultural festivals, whose themes range from film to dance to theater ...

This marks a shift from the 2018 abolition of capital punishment. According to the nation’s Justice Minister, Rodrigue Bayala ...

Last week a government source told the media that Burkina Faso's military junta plans to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the 2018 penal code. The last known executions in Burkina ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

s village near Titao, in northern Burkina Faso, she and her six children left ... after having travelled 900 kilometres from Gorom-Gorom, a town in the north of Burkina, near Mali and Niger.

OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — (AP) — The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a militant attack earlier this year. That's ...