Despite a deteriorating security and humanitarian situation, the Burkinabè economy is holding firm thanks to record-high gold ...

On the eve of the national holiday, Burkina Faso's President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, addressed the nation, celebrating the recent military reconquest of territory, advocating for rapid ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country's latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, ...

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

A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the ...

Sir: Three years after seizing power, Burkina Faso’s strongman, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, continues to project himself as the torchbearer of a new African revolution — a reincarnation of the late Thomas ...

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

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has taken a step toward reinstating the death penalty, adopting a new penal code that ...

Three of the four arrested officers were in charge of special forces units. Two days after suspending Jeune Afrique for publishing articles reporting tensions within the army, Burkina Faso’s ...

Burkina Faso’s leader Ibrahim Traoré has become the first recipient of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) biometric identity ...

In Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré was sworn in as interim president, just weeks after he led a coup and overthrew the country’s president. It was the second military coup in Burkina Faso in just eight ...

Videos that surfaced in June 2025 accurately reported that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Burkina Faso President Capt. Ibrahim Traoré to "sit down, boy." In June 2025, videos ...