Democracy "kills" and the people of Burkina Faso must "forget" it, the country's military ruler has said in an interview aired on state television.

Dioulasso, Burkina Faso's economic capital, found himself suddenly confronted by the military-led country's culture minister ...

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Burkina Faso is tightening its grip on its gold sector as the military-led government pushes ahead with reforms that have placed six of the country’s 15 industrial gold mines under majority Burkinabe ...

Burkina Faso has moved to high alert as the fallout from Mali’s escalating conflict spreads across the Sahel. President Ibrahim Traoré has ordered heightened security in the capital, with elite units ...

DAKAR - As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face ...

Yousra Elbagir, a journalist with British TV channel Sky News, has become the target of a smear campaign by supporters of Burkina Faso's junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré after she raised ...

Since Ibrahim Traoré came to power in a coup in September 2022, several foreign media outlets have been suspended or banned in Burkina Faso.

Amnesty International calls the latest Traore government crackdown a ‘flagrant attack’ on basic rights.

Traore led the coup that ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba, who had seized power in a previous coup in January and ...

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore, says that people need to “forget” about democracy, just three months after his government dissolved all political parties in the West African nation.