Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers agreed to return to ... Read more »
Violence in Burkina Faso has increased over the past five months, draining public confidence in the junta, threatening coastal West African states, and worsening Read more »
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned an attack in Burkina Faso that left dozens of civilians dead and displaced scores more. Armed men ... Read more »
Mali's military junta will take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule, following an August 2020 coup. The junta's spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga said on June 6, ... Read more »
The junta in Ouagadougou justified the January 24, 2022 coup, saying tha Read more »
The country's former president, Blaise Compaoré, was sentenced to life imprisonment on April 6, 2022, for his role in the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, ... Read more »
The Burkinabè government has responded to concerns raised at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of state summit held in Accra on March 25, 2022. ... Read more »
Burkina Faso has seen an upsurge in violence after a period of relative calm following a military junta takeover on January 24, 2022. Lieute Read more »
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 »
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