Tag: Burkina Faso

Twenty people were killed in an attack by suspected jihadists on a gold-mining site in northern Burkina Faso, sources said. Gunmen came to Dolmande...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks against the Burkina Faso military, the SITE website that tracks militant attacks reported. The...

General Stephen Townsend, commander, US Africa Command, met with President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and several other Burkinabe and allied military leaders as part...

At least 29 people were killed in Burkina Faso’s troubled north when a food convoy and a transport truck were attacked, government said. A...

Two senior allies of deposed former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore were sentenced to 10 and 20 years in prison respectively for organising a...

Burkina Faso’s military has taken delivery of several Shrek-M mine detection and disposal vehicles from Ukraine’s AutoKrAZ. Three vehicles were delivered in June this year,...

Gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in Burkina Faso, the deadliest yet in the West African nation’s fight against...

Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso, the army said....

Security forces in Burkina Faso sealed off an Avesoro gold mine after a security guard killed an intruder and local people attacked the site...

A US-based journalists’ rights group urged Burkina Faso’s government to nix a bill that would impose stiff prison sentences on media “demoralising” security services...