Burkina Faso’s military junta has closed the capital’s main Sunni mosque after nearly 100 supporters of a detained preacher ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina FasoOUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Residents in Burkina Faso’s capital report gunfire, state broadcaster off air, sparking fears of a mutiny under way.

Haruna Sumaila Abugri.It is barely two weeks since operatives of Ibrahim Traore’s led junta arrested and detained the spiritual leader of the sunni Islamic sect in Burkina Faso, Dr. Mohammed Ishaq ...

An attack about 80 miles north of Burkina Faso's capital on August 24 is one of the deadliest in nearly a decade of Islamist violence in the West African country. :: Outside Barsalogho, Burkina Faso : ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — In the wake of a weekend attack that killed up to 32 people, security was beefed up across Burkina Faso’s capital Monday as businesses and banks reopened. The West ...

At least seven people have been killed and six attackers "neutralized" Friday in Burkina Faso after attacks on the national army headquarters and the French Embassy, a government minister said. It's ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Angry protesters attacked the French Embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Saturday after supporters of the West African nation's new coup leader accused France of ...

An armed attack currently underway in Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou is centered on the French embassy, according to a post on the embassy's Facebook page."The attack is ongoing at the French ...

DAKAR, Senegal(AP) — Burkina Faso's authorities secretly held and abused a prominent investigative journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift detention facility in the capital, an international ...