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Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore. File | Photo Credit: AP Junta-led Burkina Faso’s Parliament has dissolved all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military rulers seized power more than three years ago. Under Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup in September 2022, the junta has muzzled critics, arresting dissidents or forcing…
Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore. File | Photo Credit: AP Burkina Faso’s Parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality with offenders facing two to five years in prison, the state broadcaster reported on late Monday (September 1, 2025). The amended family code was approved by the Parliament on Monday in an unanimous vote that puts…
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Lagos: Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The withdrawal has shaken the Economic Community of West African States that many consider to be the continent’s most important regional group and which this year marks…
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Security forces deployed to secure the area after an overnight attack on a restaurant in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and traumatised, they fled in search of safety, food and shelter….
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Burkina Faso’s junta head on Saturday named former communications minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister, according to a presidential decree, a day after dissolving the government. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta appointed a new Prime Minister, a day after dissolving the government without providing any reason. Rimtalba Jean…
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About 600 people were killed within a few hours by members affiliated with Al-Qaeda in an August attack on the town of Barsalogho in Burkina Faso, a report claimed on Friday. The residents of Barsalogho were shot dead on August 24 as they dug protective trenches. The attack, in which most of the victims were…
Arouna Loure, a vocal critic of Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta, received a conscription order on September 7 last year requesting that the anaesthesiologist start a month of military service four days later. The order did not specify a date or location for the doctor to report for duty. Days later, on September 13, two…
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Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Alliance of Sahel States | Photo Credit: X@BakaryYaou Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalised plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their Foreign Ministers met Friday in Niger’s capital Niamey to agree on a…
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File picture of mural in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. | Photo Credit: AP Burkina Faso suspended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Voice of America (VOA) radio stations for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces. Burkina Faso’s communication spokesperson, Tonssira…
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File picture of a mural in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report | Photo Credit: AP Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many…
