Police have released the leader of the former ruling party in Burkina Faso who was briefly arrested for criticising the conditions the ousted president was being held under, his People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) said Monday.
Alassane Bala Sakande was...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened to impose financial and economic sanctions against Burkina Faso if the military government fails to set a timetable to return the country to constitutional rule.
At an extraordinary summit in...
About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say.
The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses...