[Ghanaian Times] Premium Foods Limited, an agro-processing company at Ejisu-Kwaso in Ashanti, operating under government's One-District-One Factory initiative, has begun the export of Super Cereal to Burkina Faso, under the United Nations World Food ...

[New Republic] The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Embassy of Burkina Faso have agreed on what is believed to be an amicable solution to the alleged illegal occupation of Burkinabe nationals mostly in the forest region of Grand Gedeh County.

[RSF] A release prepared by Reporters sans Frontières to accompany its annual World Press Freedom Index for 2022:

[New Dawn] Nimba County -- About 1,200 Burkinabes have entered Liberia thru Nimba County, allegedly for farming purposes. The migrants arrived recently in Kpablee administrative District#6, in Nimba.

[The Conversation Africa] On April 6, 2022, a military tribunal in Burkina Faso found 11 men, including the former president, Blaise Compaoré, guilty of "attacks on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of a corpse."

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Embassy of Burkina Faso have agreed on what is believed to be an amicable solution to the alleged illegal occupation of Burkinabe nationals mostly in the forest region of Grand Ge...

[The New Humanitarian] Ouagadougou -- Burkina Faso will provide support to local communities engaged in reconciliation talks with jihadists and offer livelihood opportunities for militants willing to disarm, a government official told The New Humanit...

[GhanaToday] NGO Group at the News Conference

[CAF] Eswatini, a team from COSAFA, must familiarize themselves with the habits and customs of West Africa since they have to face three West African countries in the TotalEnergies AFCON Qualifiers, namely Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde and Togo.

[Ghanaian Times] The Black Satellites will come up against Nigeria and Burkina Faso in the Group stage of the WAFU Zone B U-20 Championship to be staged in Niger May 7-20, 2022.

[Daily Trust] Last week Wednesday, Burkina Faso's former president, Blaise Compaoré and his former head of security, Hyacinthe Kafando, were sentenced in absentia to life in jail over their roles in the October 15, 1987 brutal murder of the country'...

[Africa In Fact] Over the last two years, military-led coups have afflicted the West Africa region, particularly in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali (twice). While the individual causes of these coups differ greatly, they exemplify a trend in which gove...

[VOA] Kong, Ivory Coast -- As Ivory Coast beefs up its border security with Burkina Faso, ethnic Fulanis say they are being labeled as supporters of Islamist militants and persecuted by security forces. Rights groups warn the heavy-handed tactics cou...

[Agenzia Fides] Kaya -- The kidnapping of Sister Suellen Tennyson, missionary of the Congregation of the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross, kidnapped by force on the night between April 4 and 5, 2022 (see Fides, 6/4/2022) in northern Burkina Faso h...

[DW] More than 34 years after Thomas Sankara's assassination, a trial to establish the facts has taken place. For some, justice that has been delayed for deceades is finally being served.

[allAfrica] The country's former president, Blaise Compaoré, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for his participation in the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, killed with twelve of his companions during a coup d'etat...

[VOA] Dakar -- Burkina Faso's ex-president, Blaise Compaore, has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1987 assassination of predecessor Thomas Sankara. The ruling is seen by many as a symbolic victory for a region that has been mired by instabili...

[DW] The exiled leader fled the country after protesters threw him out of government, so he was convicted in absentia.

[RFI] A military court in Burkina Faso has handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaoré over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.