Burkina Faso’s other creditors listed in the finance ministry's quarterly report did not respond to requests for comment. Marina Zucker-Marques, a senior academic researcher at Boston University ...

Wode Maya, in a video that went viral on social media, pushed a cart full of items as he visited a market in Burkina Faso The items included a heavy sack of fruits and several boxes, and he broke ...

April 29 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West African nation seeks a bigger share of revenue from its resources.

Security Minister Mahamadou Sana announced the foiling of the coup on television on Monday Burkina Faso's military government has said it foiled a "major plot" to overthrow junta leader Capt ...

(Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have killed scores of civilians ... five civilian men when they attacked Tougouri’s market in early November. Human Rights Watch was unable ...

International watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused the Burkina Faso army of killing at least ... killed and many wounded in a packed market. They added that the al-Qaeda ...

A poor country even by West African standards, landlocked Burkina Faso has suffered from recurring droughts and military coups. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in 1960.