Burkina Faso has moved to high alert as the fallout from Mali’s escalating conflict spreads across the Sahel. President Ibrahim Traoré has ordered heightened security in the capital, with elite units ...

Russia bolstered its influence in the troubled Sahel region of West Africa with about 100 military personnel from the country ...

Democracy "kills" and the people of Burkina Faso must "forget" it, the country's military ruler has said in an interview aired on state television.

Traore led the coup that ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba, who had seized power in a previous coup in January and ...

“Bienvenue a Bamako!” The fixer, the minder and the men linked to the Malian government were waiting for us at the airport in Bamako. Polite, smiling – and watchful. It was late December, and we had ...

Demonstrators chant support for Moscow, demand France exit the West African country and warn regional bloc ECOWAS against ...

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore, says that people need to “forget” about democracy, just three months after his government dissolved all political parties in the West African nation.