Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world. It shares a northern border with Mali, which has long battled Islamic extremists.

Burkina Faso is a poor, landlocked country that depends on adequate rainfall. Irregular patterns of rainfall, poor soil, and the lack of adequate communications and other infrastructure contribute ...

Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has survived numerous assassination attempts since taking power in 2022, amid a complex web of internal betrayal, terrorist threats, and foreign ...

Anti-French and pro-Russian sentiment in both Burkina Faso and Mali has been growing in recent months. Michael Shurkin is director of global programs at 14-N Strategies, a Senegal- and U.S.- based ...

Burkina Faso, located in the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel, has experienced two coups in recent years. Relations between the authorities and Western powers have grown increasingly strained.

Burkina Faso forcibly purchased 200 kilograms of gold from a unit of Endeavour Mining Plc as the West African nation faces a worsening food crisis and its military leaders fight an Islamist ...

The "terrorism we are witnessing today comes from imperialism, and we are fighting it," Burkina Faso's charismatic president, 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traoré told Vladimir Putin on May 10.

The military government of Burkina Faso has demanded the departure of French troops from the country, according to the government press agency Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB).

After nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a civil uprising, Burkina Faso has a new leader. Roch Marc Christian Kabore won more than 53% of votes in Sunday’s elections, according ...

On May 27, 2025 security reports from Burkina Faso disclosed that a convoy of 47 long vehicles disguised as carrying humanitarian aid was intercepted at a border between Togo and Burkina Faso ...

Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement, after the West African country's second coup in less than nine months.

Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Monday.