Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere has become the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious honour, in its more than 40-year ... Read more »
A national conference in Burkina Faso has adopted a charter that will allow the junta that seized power in the West African state in January, 2022 to lead a three-year transition. ... Read more »
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has been inaugurated as the country's president, weeks after he led a coup that overthrew democratically-elected ... Read more »
Guinea-Bissau's government launched a major investigation into a foiled coup attempt to overthrow President Umaro Sissoco Embalo. Reports say a Read more »
The African Union has joined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West Africa's regional bloc, in Read more »
Millions of hectares of farmland are lost to the desert each year in Africa's Sahel region, but the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is showing that traditional ... Read more »
Burkina Faso's military says it has arrested a group of soldiers for what local media reported was a plot to overthrow the state. At a press conference, Minister of Defence, ... Read more »
Many transgender people in the conservative West African nation self-medicate with hormonal drugs due to a lack of specialist healthcare, Read more »
More than a million people are fleeing terror and violence in Burkina Faso, and their numbers are growing. Many are left to fend for themselves as they struggle to survive, writes ... Read more »
Somali filmmaker Khadar Ahmed has won the top prize at the FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso for The Gravedigger's Wife, which he wrote and directed. The film is also ... Read more »
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