Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who has led the country since a 2022 coup, want to reduce reliance on foreign aid and harness ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

Analysis - Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup ...

As many Africans sour on the West, a new generation of military officers are seizing power, vowing to build strong and ...

Cardinal Pietro Cardinal Parolin has praised authorities in Burkina Faso for their effort to regain control of the country, ...

The advancing tide of Islamist extremism has prompted the rise of pro-government militias. The result has been a vicious ...

One example is African Hub, a content creator on social media platform X with more than 800,000 followers, which regularly praises Burkina Faso’s junta leader Ibrahim Traore. “Burkina Faso ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in neighbouring Burkina Faso, describing scenes of sometimes indiscriminate ...

Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding father of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), says he is optimistic about the future of the regional bloc despite the exit of Burkina Faso ...

with citizens seeing it as representing only the interests of leaders and not theirs. Relations between ECOWAS and the coup-hit Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso began to deteriorate after the bloc ...

Four African nations are leading the global surge in gender-inclusive corporate hiring, with Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Botswana, ...