Mali profited from quick starts to each half as an own goal from Edmond Tapsoba and a strike by Lassine Sinayoko secured a 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso in the Africa Cup of Nations. Angola ...
Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights Watch ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony ...
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to urgently disclose the whereabouts of journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem, who were arrested on ...
Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025, for reporting on the government crackdown on the media, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities arrested Guezouma ...
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Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.
Click to expand Image Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 4th, 2024. © 2024 Ute Grabowsky/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was ...
In separate communications, the military governments in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawals from the ...
In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.