A foreign security source in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou said there were reports of gunfire in several parts of the city as forces loyal to ou…

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecess…

One person has been detained and an investigation opened to determine the cause of an explosion that killed scores of people at an informal gold-mini…

Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national ass…

Hailed across the Sahel as ‘the man who stopped the desert,’ Yacouba Sawadogo uses a centuries-old technique that he has adapted to conjure a 100-acr…