Burkina Faso

Youth, employment, migration, terrorism: President Emmanuel Macron of France hit all the right buttons during his speech at the University of Ouagadougou, where he showed his youthful side...

The assault on the Aziz Istanbul restaurant on 13 August which claimed 20 lives remains shrouded in confusion. A Special Forces detachment, the Unité spéciale d'intervention de la...

One of the custodians of ex-President Blaise Compaoré's deepest and most dangerous secrets is no more. Salif Diallo, a consummate political operator who reinvented himself for the post-Compaoré...

All the lawyers defending 34 ministers in ex-President Blaise Compaoré's last government have walked out after challenging the legitimacy of the Ouagadougou court. The defendants are accused of...

There was an air of festive predictability about the Second National Congress of the governing Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès, held in Ouagadougou on 10-12 March. Among...