At least 37 people have been killed and 60 wounded in an attack on a mining company convoy in Burkina Faso, authorities say. Five buses carrying staff of Canadian firm Semafo were ambushed on ...

Deadly attacks have been on the rise in Burkina Faso, despite a coup in January led ... The local authority said that one of the vehicles in the convoy ran over an improvised explosive device.

Villagers who survived the attack told HRW that a military convoy with over 100 soldiers ... the latest mass killings of civilians by the Burkina Faso military in their counterinsurgency ...

In Burkina Faso, six soldiers of paramilitary force were killed while seven others wounded in an attack in the eastern region. In a statement, the military source said that unknown gunmen attacked a ...

Burkina Faso has been battling Islamist insurgents ... not possible to enter the city without a military convoy. A day after the Mansila attack, a rocket hit the parking area of state TV ...

Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a ...

The son of one of Mali's top politicians says the country's ruling junta has arrested his father for criticizing the military ...

Relatives of victims of an attack on a road leading to the Boungou ... [Reuters] A mine worker shot during an ambush on a mining convoy in Burkina Faso said on Friday he was one of only three ...

Burkina Faso insurgents killed ... in the west African country in response to the attack. The incident followed an attack on a mining convoy in November killed nearly 40 people - victims of ...

In northern Burkina Faso, the city of Djibo has been under a jihadist blockade for two years. Doctors Without Borders, which has suffered multiple attacks, is forced to suspend its operations.