An individual was arrested in Ouagadougou, at the time he was handing over five billion FCFA ($8.2M) in cash to soldiers who ...

Traore respects public funds. No Land Cruiser V8s in his government. He bought two cheap Toyota SUVs for heads of state to use when they visit ...

Last week a government source told the media that Burkina Faso’s military junta plans to reinstate the death penalty, which ...

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

The country's leader, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, installed a system of de-facto censorship, where those critical of the regime ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018, a government ...

With Burkina Faso’s head of state threatening to withdraw their licences, players in the mining sector have been trying to defuse the situation. But how long can they hold out?

Captain Ibrahim Traore’s rise to power in Burkina Faso on September 30, 2022, marked a significant shift in the country’s leadership. At 34, Traore became the world’s youngest serving head ...

OUGADOUGOU: The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered ...

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party led by Julius Malema has saluted Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a ...

A Burkina Faso government source told AFP on Saturday that the military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which ...