In this file photograph taken on November 11, 2019, an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) of the French Army patrols a rural area during the Bourgou IV operation in northern Burkina Faso along the border with Mali and Niger. (MICHELE CATTANI / AFP) PARIS – France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso in the next […]
Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan 20, 2023. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso has decided to end a military accord that allowed French troops to fight insurgents […]
Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan 20, 2023. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso has decided to end a military accord that allowed French troops to fight insurgents […]
Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan 20, 2023. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso's military government has demanded the departure of French troops stationed in the country, the […]
Burkina Faso army officers patrol near a French armored vehicle parked in Kaya, capital of Burkina Faso's north-central region on Nov 20, 2021. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said […]
Burkina Faso soldiers are seen deployed in Ouagadougou on Sept 30, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women in Burkina Faso's northern province of Soum on Jan 12 and 13, the government said in a statement on Monday. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild […]
Luc Hallade (left), French ambassador to Burkina Faso, and General Laurent Michon (right), Commander of Barkhane Force, give a press conference, in Ouagadougou, on July 21, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) PARIS – The French foreign ministry on Tuesday said it had received a letter from the Burkinabe authorities in December requesting the departure […]
OUAGADOUGOU – The bodies of 28 men killed by gunfire have been found in the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Nouna, prosecutors said on Monday. An investigation has been launched into the killings which were discovered on Dec 30 and 31, prosecutors said in a statement that did not provide any details on the possible […]
Soldiers awaiting the arrival of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans during the 62nd anniversary of the creation of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces at the Nation Square in Ouagadougou on Nov 1, 2022. (MARTIN DEMAY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The United […]
Captain Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso's new president, attends a ceremony in Ouagadougou, on Oct 15, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup to topple Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on Sept 30, has been officially appointed to lead the transitional period of Burkina Faso, according to a […]
Burkina Faso's new self-proclaimed leader captain Ibrahim Traore (center) attends a meeting in Ouagadougou on Oct 2, 2022. (PHOTO /AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said Sunday that the situation was under control after he announced the eviction of President Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba late Friday. "We would like […]
Burkina Faso army officers patrol near a French armored vehicle parked in Kaya, capital of Burkina Faso's north-central region on Nov 20, 2021. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso’s army said on Wednesday that it accidentally killed civilians during a counter-terrorist operation in the ccuntry’s southeast earlier this week. Burkina Faso’s army […]