[RFI] In the last step of a long legal process, France has cleared the way for the extradition of Francois Compaore. The brother of Burkina Faso's former president is wanted in connection with the murder of a prominent journalist. Fearing he would no...

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency on Friday called for concerted action to help record-breaking numbers of people forced to flee increasingly violent armed attacks in Burkina Faso.

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[Zimbabwe Standard] SABLES head coach Brendan Dawson says his charges are raring to go regardless of their limited knowledge of their opponents Burkina Faso as they seek a winning start in the first of two Rugby Africa Cup Pool D matches at Old Georg...

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- The White House is announcing today that the Biden administration will donate approximately 25 million COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed in Africa. Planned to be made in the next few days are shipments of the Johnson ...

[New Dawn] The 74th session of the Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development or EBID was held via videoconference on July 1, 2021, to review the activities of the Bank for the second quarter of 2021 and to consider key publ...

[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Africa's Sahel region is seeing the worst effects of climate warming anywhere on the planet, according to the United Nations.

[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- The attack in Burkina Faso last month that killed 160 civilians was in retaliation for activity by pro-government civilian militias in the area, according to Human Rights Watch.

[Centre 4s] Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the most exposed countries of the G5 Sahel to terrorism, have been facing repeated attacks since this year beginning. It is in this worrying context that the French president announced on 10 June, the "end of...

[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Burkina Faso's President Roch Kabore has dismissed the country's defense minister in the wake of widespread protests Saturday against insecurity.

[MAP] Rabat -- The National Commission for the Supervision of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) and the Commission of Informatics and Liberties (CIL) of Burkina Faso signed, on Monday in Rabat, a cooperation protocol on the establishment of a bilateral...

[CISA] Ouagadougou -- The apostolic nuncio to Burkina Faso and Niger, Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty has acknowledged the mayor and the municipality of Ouagadougou for honoring Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI with a street.

[ICRC] Burkina Faso has been experiencing a humanitarian crisis since armed conflict broke out in 2016. As in the rest of the Sahel region, a prolonged drought has only made things worse.