The president of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) on Sunday marked the bloc’s second anniversary by highlighting what ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim ...

The Captain Ibrahim Traoré-led government of Burkina Faso has officially awarded an industrial mining permit to its ...

The government’s drive to demonstrate progress has made some soldiers hostile to those needing to leave their homes.

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

The West African country's junta accused the former colonial power of undermining its national interests.

There is no evidence French President Emmanuel Macron said in 2025 that Burkina Faso’s military junta leader Ibrahim Traore is a “great person” and that he wants to “establish a friendship” with him.

DAKAR (Reuters) - As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country's latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, ...

The military government, in power since 2022 coup, accused France of having ‘neo-colonial ambitions’.

The ceremony was intended to be symbolic. However, it perfectly illustrates the desire of Burkina Faso’s transitional authorities to seek out new partnerships. On 12 June, Captain Ibrahim Traoré was ...

Stripped of her nationality by Abdourahamane Tiani, Nigerien activist Mariama Djibrine ‘Mayra’ has no intention of abandoning her fight. At the helm of the Alliance of Democrats of the Sahel (ADS), ...