Burkina Faso

Pan-African film festival opens in Burkina Faso amid coronavirus and security challenges

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Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed has been reappointed to serve as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) for a second term.

UN deputy chief: No easy road ahead to recovery from coronavirus

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FILE PHOTO - The grave of former Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara is seen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 25, 2014. REUTERS-Joe Penney

Trial over murder of ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ opens in Burkina Faso

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Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa says he’s excited staging a return to the national team after missing out recent games due to injury.

WCQ: Super Eagles skipper wins 100th national team cap vs CAR

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Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was taken hostage on February 7, 2017, in southern Mali near the border with Burkina Faso where she had been working as a missionary.

Colombian nun kidnapped by Mali jihadists freed four years after

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Thomas Sankara

Trial of suspected killers of Thomas Sankara opens Monday

2 weeks ago

Boko Haram - Islamic State-aligned militants have intensified attacks on army camps in recent weeks as part of a more than decade-long insurgency that has killed more than 36,000 people.

Extremists target African village leaders with assassinations

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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military officer and socialist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Alain MINGAM-Gamma-Rapho- Getty Images

Burkina Faso tries alleged killers of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara

2 weeks ago

Increasing numbers of children are being killed or targeted for recruitment by armed groups in conflicts raging at Niger's borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday.

Sixteen soldiers killed in central Mali attack

2 weeks ago

Militants kill eight soldiers, injure five in Burkina Faso attack

2 weeks ago

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, under an orange sky is seen in a photo posted on the Burkina Faso est Chic Facebook page.

Facebook Group looks to turn tide on Burkina Faso’s image problems

3 weeks ago

Guinea coup leader sworn in as president

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Four Malian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the centre of the country early Monday, the military said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state.

Four Malian troops killed in bomb blast

September 20, 2021

ECOWAS leaders in second meeting over Guinea military coup

September 16, 2021

FILE - Displaced women prepare food at Kaya Camp, some 100 kms north of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Feb. 8, 2021. The country's government is at loggerheads with a media outlet over claims displaced women have been forced into sex for food aid.

Burkina Faso’s sex for food aid scandal draws government denial, lawsuit

September 16, 2021