Twenty years ago, Paris-based fashion designer François Yameogo returned to his native Burkina Faso to build a facility specialising in making Faso Danfani, the country's traditional fabric, for ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people.

(Nairobi) – The government of Burkina Faso should immediately investigate and provide information on the whereabouts of the prominent human rights activist Daouda Diallo, Human Rights Watch said ...

Burkina Faso’s human rights situation deteriorated considerably in 2023, ... On February 9, gunmen wearing sand-colored clothes and turbans attacked Dassa, killing two men.

The military junta in Burkina Faso, ... Then, on Christmas Eve, two men in civilian clothes rang the doorbell of Ablassé Ouedraogo, a former foreign affairs minister and an opposition leader.

Burkina Faso, a former French colony, was plunged into bloody internal fighting by French imperialism’s 2013-2021 war in neighboring Mali.