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 …