The BurkinaFaso Parliament on Sept. 1 passed legislation that criminalizes conduct promoting same-sex relationships in the West African nation, according to the state-run broadcaster.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—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, BurkinaFaso—Multiple terrorist attacks across BurkinaFaso over several days have resulted in the death of at least 32 people, including soldiers and civilians, government authorities said Tuesday.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—Gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a medical team in BurkinaFaso on Wednesday, killing two employees of Doctors Without Borders, the organization said. Two others managed to escape.
"The current topsy-turvydom in BurkinaFaso was predictable because of the trend in the metastasis of the scourge," he told The Epoch Times. "The security and political woes of BurkinaFaso are intertwined. Very symbiotic in nature.
OUAGADOUGOU—At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 injured in northern BurkinaFaso on Monday when a vehicle in a convoy hit an improvised explosive device (IED), the interim government said in a statement.
First lady Melania Trump and Rubio presented the 2025 honors in April, recognizing women from countries including BurkinaFaso, Israel, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Romania, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Yemen.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—Gunmen killed at least 55 people over the weekend in northern BurkinaFaso, 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 BurkinaFaso in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing one soldier and one civilian, the mine's owner said.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—Customs officers in BurkinaFaso 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.
OUAGADOUGOU—Soldiers in BurkinaFaso 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, BurkinaFaso—A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern BurkinaFaso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national broadcaster and witnesses reported.
Landlocked BurkinaFaso, 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 BurkinaFaso," the Irish foreign ministry said in a statement.
OUAGADOUGOU—A massacre in northeast BurkinaFaso 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 BurkinaFaso. At least 132 people were killed by insurgents last month in the worst single attack yet.
Niger, a landlocked nation in West Africa, has witnessed a surge in attacks from groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups, particularly along its southern border with Nigeria and in the tri-border region with Mali and BurkinaFaso.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—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 BurkinaFaso, especially in the region that borders Niger and Mali.
Last month, gunmen killed at least 30 people in eastern BurkinaFaso near the border with Niger.
OUAGADOUGOU, BurkinaFaso—Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of BurkinaFaso 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
