The Burkina Faso Parliament on Sept. 1 passed legislation that criminalizes conduct promoting same-sex relationships in the West African nation, according to the state-run broadcaster.

Frustrations over worsening violence led to two coups in Burkina Faso in 2022, but the new authorities have failed to stem the bloodshed.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—A private aircraft with seven people aboard crashed into a tree Wednesday after failing to take off successfully in Burkina Faso's eastern region, killing five people and injuring two, authorities said.

OUAGADOUGOU—Unknown assailants killed 44 people in two attacks in northern Burkina Faso overnight on Thursday, authorities said.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Multiple terrorist attacks across Burkina Faso over several days have resulted in the death of at least 32 people, including soldiers and civilians, government authorities said Tuesday.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a medical team in Burkina Faso on Wednesday, killing two employees of Doctors Without Borders, the organization said. Two others managed to escape.

Burkina Faso is one of several West African countries grappling with a terrorist insurgency that took root in Mali after a Tuareg rebellion in 2012.

"The current topsy-turvydom in Burkina Faso was predictable because of the trend in the metastasis of the scourge," he told The Epoch Times. "The security and political woes of Burkina Faso are intertwined. Very symbiotic in nature.

OUAGADOUGOU—At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 injured in northern Burkina Faso on Monday when a vehicle in a convoy hit an improvised explosive device (IED), the interim government said in a statement.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Martine Roamba’s 10-month-old daughter weakly tugs at her mother’s breast searching for milk.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Gunmen killed at least 55 people over the weekend in northern Burkina Faso, authorities said Monday, the latest attack in the West African country where mounting violence is blamed on Islamic extremists.

DAKAR—Attackers raided the Karma industrial gold mine in northern Burkina Faso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one civilian, the mine's owner said.

The eight victims were six Burkina Faso nationals, one Tanzanian and one Zambian. By Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimualt

Wednesday's attack in Burkina Faso followed two others this month in Madjoari. One killed 17 civilians and another killed 11 soldiers.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth more than $11.5 million last week, the directorate general of customs said in a statement on Wednesday.

Burkina Faso has been battling Islamist extremists active in northern regions, some with links to al-Qaeda and the ISIS terrorist group, since 2015.

The convoy has still not been able to leave Burkina Faso. By Thiam Ndiaga

OUAGADOUGOU—Soldiers in Burkina Faso have recovered 79 bodies so far after an attack in the northern Seno Province over the weekend, the government said on Tuesday, as new details of the assault emerged.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national broadcaster and witnesses reported.

Landlocked Burkina Faso, one of West Africa's poorest countries despite being a gold producer, has experienced numerous coups since independence from France in 1960.

Young was part of a group that on Monday morning was attacked by unknown assailants in the eastern part of Burkina Faso," the Irish foreign ministry said in a statement.

OUAGADOUGOU—A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried out mostly by children between the ages of 12 and 14, the government said.

About 1.2 million people have been displaced by the violence in Burkina Faso. At least 132 people were killed by insurgents last month in the worst single attack yet.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to provisional results announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission on Nov. 26.

Islamic extremists have been increasingly staging assaults in Burkina Faso, especially in the region that borders Niger and Mali. Last month, gunmen killed at least 30 people in eastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger.

Coups since 2020 in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger brought to power military officers who expelled French troops and invited in Russian mercenaries.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Two Spanish citizens have been killed in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government said on Tuesday.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Nov. 22, as the country went to the polls for presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing violence linked to the al-Qaida and ISIS

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—An American citizen has been killed in the capital of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, according to the U.S. State Department.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Gunmen killed 24 men, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three others on Sunday in Burkina Faso, an official said.