Military-ruled Burkina Faso on Saturday suspended "all distribution methods" of Le Monde daily after an article on a deadly jihadi attack in the north, in the latest measure against a French media organization. "The government has decided to suspend all ...

Very bad news has hit the Pharaohs and Manchester City, with the injury of Omar Marmoush, who appears to have hurt his knee. The Manchester City striker collapsed after a tackle from an opposing player and immediately asked to be substituted. The severity of his injury is yet to be determined.

After coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, the latest putsch, in Niger, has forced France to examine what lingering influence it has in the region, as its former colonies reject its legacy. President Ebrahim Raisi, who has been reinforcing Iran's ties across ...

Lawmakers in the country's unelected parliament have approved fines and prison sentences for persons convicted. Homosexuality is illegal in around 30 African countries, but not until now in Burkina Faso,

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Uncertainty continues to surround the whereabouts of President Roch Kaboré after the Burkinabe leader was deposed in a coup over the weekend.

Resilience and creativity are deeply rooted in Sahelian societies. Today, every artistic project, every cultural initiative, is a direct response to the daily challenges and an act of social transformation.

In the latest blow to media freedom in Burkina Faso, the country’s transitional military authorities have expelled Agnès Faivre and Sophie Douce, two female journalists working for the French newspapers Libération and Le Monde. Both journalists ...

Illustrations, color plate Q (between pages 96 and 97). Tondiedo, a rock-art site dating back to the very end of the Iron Age, was discovered in the Markoye area of Burkina Faso in west Africa. A characteristic feature of this site is the distribution of ...

Marked by armed conflicts and a Jihadist insurrection since 2015, Burkina Faso remains prey to great political and security instability. The Burkina Faso government seems to be trying out a new strategy of inviting Russia to take France’s place as ...

Les récentes recherches ont démontré les difficultés de la définition des réalités ethniques qui ne recoupent pas forcément les critères habituellement utilisés que sont l'histoire, la culture, la langue, la généalogie, le territoire.