Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as of9 Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso leave ECOWAS 500 km GUINea BURKINA The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above.

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, takes effect on Wednesday after a year of

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault on a town in southern Burkina Faso. The attack occurred on January 23, 2025.

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.

Burkina Faso has an outstanding external debt estimated at more than $10 billion. Additionally, it owes China an unknown amount of money. A vast majority of its mining fields are owned by French, Russian,

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned the headwear.

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization."

Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, is the heartland of traditional textile weaving. Here, the streets are dotted with workshops where artisans, or moogos, as they're locally known, weave intricate designs using the same methods their ancestors did.

Ibrahim Traore hits back at French president saying that African leaders had ‘forgotten to say thank you" to Paris for ‘helping to combat’ insurgencies - Anadolu Ajansı

The journalists were on an anti-poaching mission in Burkina Faso. War reporter David Beriáin and cameraman Roberto Fraile were ambushed when the government convoy they were accompanying was ...

The three countries will put their own common passport into circulation on Wednesday and have announced a unified army of 5,000 men.

Interview: Zambian Sister Vickness Muleya, member of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, leads the Delwendé Center for women who are accused of witchcraft and rejected by their communities.