Burkina Faso is a west African dryland country known for its diverse ecosystems, including savannas, forests and wetlands.

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

UN Human Rights Office should follow up on transnational repression around the world, as well as abuses in China and Burkina Faso Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and ...

"Many of Burkina Faso’s professionals and political figures ... adding that the project to establish a Russian Center for Science and Culture, where Russian will be taught, is at its final ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...

Culture, Arts and Tourism Rimtalba, Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo NAIROBI, January 26. /TASS/. Russia donated 25,000 tons of grain to Burkina Faso as part of a humanitarian supply, the ceremony took ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States – from West African bloc Ecowas is set to take effect on 29 January, with security experts ...

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.