Here’s a look at violence against UN peacekeeping forces. This is a selected list of incidents from 1990 to present. Facts Since 1948, the United Nations has authorized more than 71 peacekeeping ...

A major investigation has found that the mercenary ‘private security’ company has failed to accomplish its mission of ...

Burkina Faso’s parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality. Offenders will face two to five years in prison.

Islamic State-affiliated militants have stepped up attacks in western Niger, killing more than 127 people in five separate ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has declared the United Nations resident coordinator as “persona non grata” on its territory.

Earlier this week, Burkina Faso’s junta expelled the top United Nations representative in the country, Carol Flore-Smereczniak, declaring her “persona non grata” following a new UN report on ...

Aug 18 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has declared United Nations regional coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak persona non grata over a U.N. report alleging violations against children in the West African ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The military junta in Burkina Faso on Monday declared the United Nations resident coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak as “persona non grata” over an official U.N. report that ...

Burkina Faso's military ruler is hailed on social media as a pan-African revolutionary. Yet at home, he suppresses civil ...

Madagascar sealed a place in the quarter-finals of CHAN 2024 with a 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso at Amaan International Stadium in Zanzibar, on August 16, 2025. [Cafonline] Madagascar made it to the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A drone attack on a 16-truck U.N. convoy carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region destroyed three vehicles that had caught fire, the World Food ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) says humanitarian staff and assets must never be a target [File: UNAMID/Albert Gonzales Ferran/AFP] A drone attack has hit a convoy of 16 trucks carrying desperately ...