Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim Traoré, the junta leader of Burkina Faso, received Tete António, the Special Envoy of the African ...

Despite a prolonged fallout within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria is making diplomatic ...

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

Some African presidents flew straight to Ouagadougou to sign the interim unity documents when they could not land. Some ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso’s security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

Brazil's rightwing former president Jair Bolsonaro will take the stand next week in his trial on charges of trying to stage a coup to retain power after an election loss, as the proceedings enter ...

Burkina Faso has now withdrawn from Ecowas altogether, joining with Mali and Niger — fellow post-coup governments — to form the Alliance of Sahel States. Under a revised transition plan, Traore could ...

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

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ISTANBUL (AP) — Prosecutors in Turkey issued arrest warrants for 63 active-duty military personnel Friday over links to a group accused of attempting a coup in 2016.

An unstable Burkina Faso Despite promising to fight the security crisis that pushed them to stage a coup, Burkina Faso's military leaders have struggled to deal with the worsening crisis.