Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

Here’s what you need to know about the attacks in Burkina Faso, JNIM, and how the ruling military government has fared in fighting the group. What happened on Saturday? By Friday, Burkina Faso ...

The Malian military government has reported that it thwarted a “terrorist” attack in the capital, adding the situation is ...

Burkina Faso's prime minister said on Wednesday scores of civilians killed in an attack by Islamist militants while digging ...

That day in February, the village of Essakane in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso joined a growing list of communities in the ...

Trained by the US and France in warfare, the young Lt-Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba turned on his political masters in Burkina Faso by seizing ... the barrel of the gun, the trio appear to ...

The West African country’s armed forces said the assault, on a school for military police, was carried out by terrorists.

Burkina Faso has experienced a convergence of crises, including inter-ethnic violence, armed conflict, poverty, inequalities, food insecurity, and environmental change. As a result, over 1.4 million ...

Three West African countries run by military juntas say they will form a joint force to fight jihadist threats. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced the formation of the force following talks in ...

By Fadimata Kontao, Tiemoko Diallo and Idrissa Sangare BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali said on Tuesday that its capital Bamako was ...

The mood in Zamfara, Sokoto, Niger and other states in the northern part of Nigeria is that of relief. This followed the ...

including Mali and Burkina Faso, where Islamist violence is spiraling. An official in the French military, which has one of its largest African bases in Chad, agreed that climate change ...