Blaise Compaoré, the former leader of Burkina Faso, returned to Ouagadougou on Thursday after spending eight years abroad. In order to meet with the nation’s new…
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The military generals who ousted Roch Kaboré as president of Burkina Faso in a coup in January have given him total freedom. According to local media…
Reports indicate that the military leader of Burkina Faso Lt.Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba recently met and held talks with the president whose administration he deposed in…
Burkina Faso’s government has declared three days of national mourning beginning Tuesday for at least 50 civilians killed over the weekend in the country’s north. Lieutenant…
Militants have raided the Karma industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one civilian. Three…
More than 100 people have been reported killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in northern Chad. The violence broke out on May 23 and 24…
Former Nigeria’s vice president Atiku Abubakar has been elected as the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the next general elections for the second time in…
According to the governor of the region, armed militants on Thursday killed about 50 people in an area of eastern Burkina Faso ravaged by insurgency. Colonel…
Bakeries in Burkina Faso downed their shutters nationwide on Thursday in protest over the government’s refusal to let them increase the price of bread to match…
A spike in cholera in Cameroon has killed 140 people since October last year. The Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute said in a statement on Wednesday…