The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said 6,976,470 individuals were forcibly displaced by conflicts and violence in West Africa. Out of the 6,976,470 persons, 6,352,346 are Internally Displaced Persons and 624,124 are refugees and asylum-seekers According to the UNHCR, Nigeria and Burkina Faso hosts the highest displaced population with 5,641,530 individuals in West Africa. It attributed conflicts …

Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has suspended one of the country’s most popular radio stations after it broadcast an interview deemed “insulting” to Niger Republic’s new military leaders. Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday “until further notice”, Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement. He said the measure was “in the higher interests of the nation”. The …

A Romanian national kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in 2015 in Burkina Faso, has been released after eight years in captivity, the Romanian government announced on Wednesday. Iulian Ghergut, now 47, was taken on 4th April 2015, while working in a manganese mine in northeast Burkina Faso, near the border with Mali and Niger. “He has been released and is …

The quarter-final between Nigeria and Burkina Faso at the ongoing Africa U17 Cup of Nations in Algeria is going to be a very interesting game, according to the Head coach of the Golden Eaglets, Nduka Ugbade. This fixture stands between the Golden Eaglets and a 13th appearance in the FIFA U17 World Cup, as all the semifinalists will represent the …

Forty-four civilians have been killed by “armed terrorist groups” in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger Republic border, a regional governor said on Saturday. The provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in northeast Burkina Faso overnight Thursday “is 44 civilians killed and others wounded”, said Rodolphe Sorgho, …

The Federal Government has summoned the Burkina Faso envoy to Nigeria, Pascal Gouba over the alleged murder of 16 Nigerians who were on a pilgrimage to Kaolak, Senegal over a month ago. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, made this known on Thursday in a statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media, HMOS, Ibrahim Aliyu. Recall …

Burkina Faso has asked France to move its troops out of the country within a month, according to a letter to Paris from the authorities in the West African country, which was obtained by AFP on Sunday. The foreign ministry letter, dated last Wednesday, ends the 2018 agreement under which French troops were stationed there and sets a deadline of …

Burkinabe army Captain Ibrahim Traoré has ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government in the West African country’s second coup in eight months In a statement read on national television on Friday evening, Traore said a group of officers who helped Damiba seize power in January, had decided to remove their leader due to his inability to deal with …