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.

Rights groups call out state repression after violent crackdown on protests against Faure Gnassingbe’s extended rule.

Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

Believing Muslims say we should have faith in the Quran because Allah literally spoke it to the angel Jibreel, who in turn ...

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They discovered abandoned clothing, freshly dug trenches ... including at Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti's sites in Ghana and Guinea and Nordgold's Bissa Mine in Burkina Faso. There have been no ...

The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal brief asserting that the Russia-linked Wagner ...

Across townships, cities, markets and digital feeds in Africa, the name of Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore echoes with a fervour rarely reserved for a Head of State. His portrait is ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: TikTok videos claim Burkina Faso’s leader is dead, but all evidence shows Ibrahim Traoré is alive and still popular among pan-Africanists. Captain Ibrahim Traoré became Burkina Faso ’s ...

Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West African nation seeks a bigger share of revenue from its resources.