Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

In some battles, I've seen 40, 50 or 100 dead people," one of the men told the BBC. The three, all in their late thirties or early forties, said they had fought in Burkina Faso multiple times ...

Armed men brutally murdered two catechists in Burkina Faso while they were travelling home last month.The attack by ...

At least 10 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an attack near the Burkina Faso border, the Nigerien army announced Wednesday ...

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested two ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

The three survivors told AP they’re certain the men were security forces, not Islamist militants. They describe them wearing military uniforms, one with a Burkina Faso flag fastened to him.

UN Human Rights Office should follow up on transnational repression around the world, as well as abuses in China and Burkina Faso Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe.

In the nation's tenth Olympic appearance, Burkina Faso has finally earned its first Olympic medal, courtesy of triple jump athlete Hugues Fabrice Zango. Zango's jump of 17.47m earned him a bronze ...

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.