Four French soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Burkina Faso, France’s military disclosed on Tuesday evening. The army explained in a…
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Burkina Faso on Friday announced an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, which it said in a statement had been detected across 42 hotspots.…
Burkina Faso’s President Roch Kabore on Friday nominated the former head of a nuclear-test-ban agency Lassina Zerbo as Prime Minister amid an escalating security crisis that…
In the latest wave of violence in Burkina Faso, unknown gunmen trapped and killed at least 14 members of a government-backed civilian militia in Burkina Faso…
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has received Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire’s resignation following sustained terror attacks last month which spurred demonstrations calling for a…
The President of Burkina Faso, President Roch Kabore on Wednesday fired his prime minister amid an escalating security crisis that has killed thousands and led to…
At least two people were reportedly killed and several wounded when Islamist militants attacked an army position in northern Benin on Wednesday night. According to the…
The detention of the ousted Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to Awe, a distant hamlet in Nasarawa State, has been deemed illegal, illegitimate, and unconstitutional…
Burkinabe government has extended the suspension of mobile internet services throughout the national territory for reasons of “public safety”. The government earlier this week had however…
Burkina Faso’s government said on Monday it had disconnected mobile internet access in the country under a legal provision related to national defence and public security.…