France seems to be losing the grip it once had on its former colonies, and the rift is growing every day, writes allAfrica's Michael Tantoh. From Mali to Cameroon, Tantoh reports ... Read more »
A series of coup attempts have raised fears that military takeovers in Africa are on the rise. But is that true? Since August 2020, five coups have occurred in three Read more »
France and Burkina Faso have officially marked the end of French military operations in the West African nation, the Burkinabe armed forces said. A flag Read more »
Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, have been operating in Burkina Faso since 1995. The organisation closed its doors in 2015, due to ... Read more »
Paris recently recalled its ambassador to Burkina Faso after agreeing to demands from the ruling military junta to pull out its troops, RFI reports.. In his first public ... Read more »
Just ten years after the rescue of Mali's official government by the French military Operation Serval, renamed Operation Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that ... Read more »
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the immediate and unconditional release of a group of women and girls who were abducted in Burkina Fas Read more »
Without proper supervision and control, the use of 50,000 armed civilian auxiliaries could aggravate security problems, write Hassane Koné and Fah Read more »
Ghana has sent its national security minister to Burkina Faso to repair a diplomatic rift after Ghana's president accused Ouagadougou of hiring Russian mercenaries to fight ... Read more »
Captain Ibrahim Traoré was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday October 5, 2022, according to an official statement, after the West African country's ... Read more »
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