Burkina Faso

'Backsliding ... that we haven’t seen in decades, with coups and conflicts and political instability and fraudulent elections in many countries.'

An attack by unidentified assailants in northern Burkina Faso on army and volunteer defense forces on April 15 left ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Unknown assailants killed 44 people in two attacks in northern Burkina Faso overnight on Thursday, authorities said. The ...

OUAGADOUGOU—At least 51 soldiers were killed when their unit was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso on Friday, the ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a medical team in Burkina Faso on Wednesday, killing two ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Multiple terrorist attacks across Burkina Faso over several days have resulted in the death of at least ...

OUAGADOUGOU—At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 injured in northern Burkina Faso on Monday when a vehicle ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Armed assailants killed at least 22 civilians in northwest Burkina Faso on Monday, a local official said, the ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Soldiers in Burkina Faso have recovered 79 bodies so far after an attack in the northern Seno Province ...

DAKAR—Attackers raided the Karma industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, ...

OUAGADOUGOU—A seventh dead body of a miner missing from a Burkina Faso zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Armed assailants have killed about 50 people in a part of eastern Burkina Faso ravaged by Islamist violence, ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Martine Roamba’s 10-month-old daughter weakly tugs at her mother’s breast searching for milk. The malnourished baby ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso's government, facing mounting public anger over repeated killings by Islamist terrorists, extended its suspension of mobile ...

ABIDJAN—A military helicopter crashed in northern Ivory Coast while on a reconnaissance mission near the border with Burkina ...

OUAGADOUGOU—A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Eleven police officers were killed and four are missing after their unit was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso ...

NIAMEY, Niger—Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in ...

DAKAR—Ireland's government confirmed on Wednesday that an Irish citizen, wildlife NGO founder Rory Young, was killed by unidentified ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Two Spanish citizens have been killed in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Nov. 22, ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—An American citizen has been killed in the capital of the West African nation of Burkina ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Eighteen Burkinabe nationals died when a bus they were traveling in crashed near the town of Bouake in ...