The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian military personnel detained after Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made what the ...

It began quietly mdash; a Nigerian aircraft making an unremarkable landing under circumstances that are still being contested ...

Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says the Nigerian soldiers who were on an aircraft that made a forced landing in ...

Military juntas in three West African states warned they would shoot down any aircraft that violated their airspace, after a ...

But the Nigerian account of the incident contradicts the position of the trio of Sahel countries, formally known as Alliance ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Just weeks after Burkina Faso's junta ousted hundreds of French troops, signs appeared that the West African country could be moving closer to Russia, including the ...

With the introduction of biometric identity cards, the Sahel leaders seek to grow the profile of their new bloc and to deepen ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina FasoOUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Gunshots rang out Saturday in Burkina Faso's capital amid signs of lingering tensions a day after a group of military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a ...

Burkina Faso’s army said it took control of the country on Monday, deposing President Roch Kabore, dissolving the government and parliament, suspending the constitution and shuttering its borders. The ...