Burkina Faso's military junta leader Ibrahim Traore has sought deeper military ties with Russia since seizing power in a coup ...

Three West African nations ruled by military commanders after recent coups are speaking with one voice to reject Western ...

On September 30, Burkina Faso military leader President Paul-Henri Damiba was deposed in the country’s second coup in a year, as army Captain Ibrahim Traore took charge, dissolving the ...

By nightfall, a military officer in camouflage was reading an announcement: For the sake of Burkina Faso’s national security, he said, officers had seized power. The coup d’etat that unfolded ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American ...

Burkina Faso's military government has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted in the 2015 failed coup against the transitional government The amnesty excludes top coup leaders but allows the pardoned ...

Burkina Faso's new president came to power in a dramatic coup, winning hearts across Africa with fiery rhetoric and viral social media appeal.

As coup attempts against the anti-imperialist government of Burkina Faso increase, Pan Africanism Today calls on progressive forces to demonstrate solidarity with the revolutions across the Sahel.

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning away from former Western allies ...

Despite a recent surge in terrorist attacks, the region is more at risk of fragmentation than centralised jihadist rule.

Mali's military junta has started building a gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran Group. The ...