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Burkina Faso's junta says it thwarted military coup attempt
ABC News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBurkina Faso's military government announced Wednesday that Burkinabe intelligence and security...
Burkina Faso suspends French news channel over insurgency report
Reuters via AOL· 11 months agoOUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's military government has suspended a French television news channel for a report on a jihadist insurgency which it said lacked objectivity and credibility ...
Junta-led Burkina Faso suspends BBC, Voice of America for two weeks
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoBurkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they...
Burkina Faso rescuers find no survivors in flooded mine's rescue chamber
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOUGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside a...
Four officers arrested in Burkina Faso after thwarted coup attempt, prosecutor says
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFour army officers were arrested in Burkina Faso, a military prosecutor said, a day after the...
Burkina Faso detains four French civil servants, says diplomatic source
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoFour French IT workers with diplomatic passports and visas have been arrested in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday, denying a media report that ...
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger students in French visa limbo as relations sour
Reuters via AOL· 7 months agoBurkina Faso medical student Alphonse Nikiema lit up as he read an email from his university allowing him to resume visa paperwork for training at a French hospital next year - a move that has ...
Burkina Faso authorities say 70 people, mostly children and elderly, slain in village massacre
Associated Press via AOL· 6 months agoAssailants in northern Burkina Faso killed about 70 people, most of them children and the elderly, in a village massacre earlier this month that remains under investigation, authorities said ...
Five killed in a private plane crash in eastern Burkina Faso
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoA 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 ...
Burkina Faso assailants kill at least 15 Nigerian pilgrims travelling to Senegal
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAt least 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria's presidency said on Monday. "President Muhammadu ...