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By Anne Mimault and Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -More than 1,000 people gathered in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday...

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - The military coup https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-president-kabore-detained-military-camp-sources-tell-reuters-2022-01-24 in Burkina Faso deals another heavy blow to France's fading...

PARIS (Reuters) - An attempted coup in Burkina Faso and an earlier coup in Mali are no reason for France...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has resigned, four security and political sources told Reuters. Kabore has not...

By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military appeared to seize power on Monday by arresting President Roch Kabore...

By Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) - The West African nation of Burkina Faso hit international headlines on Sunday when machinegun...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso Defence Minister General Bathelemy Simpore denied rumours on Sunday that President Roch Marc Kabore had...

PARIS (Reuters) - Four French soldiers from the Operation Barkhane taskforce were injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A Benin army vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in a national park near the border with...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Eight soldiers were killed and seven others injured when their patrol was ambushed by suspected militants in western...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Authorities in Burkina Faso have declared a two-day period of mourning after suspected militants killed at least...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's foreign affairs ministry said that Chad planned to deploy 1,000 additional soldiers to Mali to reinforce its...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's armed forces killed about 100 militants in a joint operation with Niger between Nov. 25...

By Anne Mimault DORI, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - Suspended from scales in a bucket, nine-month-old Sakinatou Amadou gripped the sides...

By Thiam Ndiaga KINSHASA (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's President Roch Kabore on Friday nominated the former head of a nuclear-test-ban...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Unidentified gunmen ambushed and killed least 14 members of a government-backed civilian militia in Burkina Faso on Thursday,...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore fired his prime minister on Wednesday amid an escalating security crisis that...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed 12 soldiers and wounded eight in a clash in southwest Niger near the border...

COTONOU (Reuters) -Two soldiers were killed and several more wounded when Islamist militants attacked a border security post in northern...