Traore respects public funds. No Land Cruiser V8s in his government. He bought two cheap Toyota SUVs for heads of state to use when they visit ...

An individual was arrested in Ouagadougou, at the time he was handing over five billion FCFA ($8.2M) in cash to soldiers who ...

Captain Ibrahim Traore’s rise to power in Burkina Faso on September 30, 2022, marked a significant shift in the country’s ...

Amnesty International has reported a surge in the use of the death penalty on the African continent, saying in a statement in ...

With Burkina Faso’s head of state threatening to withdraw their licences, players in the mining sector have been trying to defuse the situation. But how long can they hold out?

Junta leader Ibrahim Traoré announced on Saturday that ... The decision was made to increase the amount of domestically ...

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party led by Julius Malema has saluted Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, ...

Capt Ibrahim Traoré also accused the French army of harbouring Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba at one of its bases - but France denies any involvement. Gunshots were heard in Burkina Faso's capital city ...

In July, Burkina Faso military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traore asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help set up a nuclear power plant in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso's military leaders have signed a ...

Ibrahim Traore noted that Russia and his country have "one and the same outlook" and vision, expressing hope that the current summit would provide opportunities for establishing a fair world order ...

Envisaged to be made up of 50,000 recruits, it was set up by Captain Ibrahim Traore's junta to bolster the army's efforts to regain territory from jihadists who, according to the US Department of ...

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