Military-led Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, its former colonial master and security partner, ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced on June 26 that Burkina Faso will break off bilateral relations with Paris. The 2,500 French ...

The West African country's junta accused the former colonial power of undermining its national interests.

Anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies as the continent becomes a renewed diplomatic battleground.

Burkina Faso has recovered more than $16 million and shut down dozens of illegal gold trading operations as Ibrahim Traore’s government intensifies its campaign against gold fraud. Authorities say 93 ...

Traoré, who seized power after ousting interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a coup d'état in September 2022, has been enjoying some positive reviews on social media recently. Admirers have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June 2025, videos surfaced on social media alleging that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had told interim ...

In Burkina Faso, on May 25, 2024, a national conference took place to establish the country’s new political agenda. This conference concluded with a five-year extension to its military transition, ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim ...

In Burkina Faso, it’s Ibrahim Traore’s dizzy season as giddy messiah — all tizzy lies pushed as redemptive balm: the making of a junta nirvana on X! What mirage! Whatever fibs this junta upstart feeds ...

Stripped of her nationality by Abdourahamane Tiani, Nigerien activist Mariama Djibrine ‘Mayra’ has no intention of abandoning her fight. At the helm of the Alliance of Democrats of the Sahel (ADS), ...