The 27th edition of the Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) takes place in Burkina Faso from October 16 to 23, 2021. This year's edition will be ... Read more »
The long-awaited trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara - assassinated in a coup d'etat which brought exiled former president Blaise Compaore to power - has been delayed once ... Read more »
Since Burkina Faso began its war against armed groups linked to Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and local bandits seven years ago, at least 400 citizens have been arrested on suspicion of ... Read more »
A report by The New Humanitarian has found that eight internally displaced persons (IDPs) were coerced into sex with community leaders, who also demand money in exchange ... Read more »
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has reported that at least 480 civilians were killed in militia attacks in Burkina Faso between May and August 2021. The NRC also ... Read more »
Burkina Faso's President Marc Christian Kaboré has declared three days of national mourning after suspected militants killed at least 47 people, including 30 civilians, in ... Read more »
Art Melody, who raps in the local Djula and Moore languages, knows from experience the negative impact of climate change on farm production, because he is a farmer himself. His ... Read more »
President Roch Kabore has fired Cherif Sy in the wake of widespread protests against insecurity on June 26, 2021. At the beginning of June, Burkina Faso saw its worst terror attack ... Read more »
More than 7,000 people have fled a village in Burkina Faso that was attacked over the weekend, adding to tens of thousands already displaced by a militant insurgency in the ... Read more »
The UN refugee agency says survivors of the massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in the ... Read more »
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