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Military junta in Burkina Faso to send troops to Niger.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has stated that the military junta in Burkina Faso is deploying troops to Niger in preparation for potential resistance to any ECOWAS military intervention in Niger. This development comes after a military...

After gunmen kill two staff members, MSF suspends operations in northwest Burkina Faso.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in an area of northwest Burkina Faso where armed assailants killed two of its employees on Wednesday, the medical charity said in a statement. "On the morning of Wednesday, February 8, a...

Burkina Faso declares it wants the French troops to leave.

The Burkina Faso government clarified on Monday that it has asked ex-colonial ruler France to pull its troops out of the insurgency-hit country within a month. France deploys about 400 special forces soldiers in junta-ruled Burkina, but relations have deteriorated...

Concerned about the plight of victims targeted by jihadists in Burkina Faso, Traoré

The president of the transition in Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, estimated on Tuesday that a new "phase" had been "triggered by the terrorists", against civilians, a few days after the kidnapping of around fifty women in the north...

Six people died in an attack in Burkina near Ghana and Togo.

Six civilians, including four teachers, were killed Sunday in an attack by suspected jihadists in Bittou, a town in Burkina Faso near the Ghana-Togo border, security and local sources said on Monday (November 5). A group of armed men burst...

French radio is banned in Burkina Faso for airing “terrorist propaganda.”

Burkina Faso on Saturday ordered "the immediate suspension and until further notice" of Radio France Internationale (RFI), accusing it of having relayed an "intimidation message" attributed to a "terrorist leader", the Burkinabe government spokesman announced. By having relayed this message,...

Burkina Faso: two attacks in the north resulted in at least 14 deaths.

At least fourteen people, including eight civilian army replacements, were killed Monday in two separate attacks by jihadist groups in northern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Tuesday. "Armed individuals attacked in the early hours of Monday...

100 killed in Burkina Faso attack

Armed men killed at least 100 civilians in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso over the weekend, a local and a security source said on Monday. The attackers struck on Saturday night in Seytenga commune, part of Seno province,...

Guinea, Burkina Faso risk more sanctions over transition delay

Guinea’s ruling military government has signalled that it might break a deadline to set out its plans to return to civilian rule, opening the prospect of more sanctions from West Africa’s political and economic bloc. There was no immediate announcement...

Burkina Faso ex-president freed from detention

Burkina Faso’s former President, Roch Kabore, who had been under house arrest since he was toppled in a military coup in January, has been allowed to return to his family home, according to the country’s interim government. The interim...
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“Ghanaians make up a notable portion of US visa overstayers.”

Ghana has emerged as one of the African countries with high visa overstay rates in the United States, according...
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