Burkina Faso
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Luteni kanali Damiba akimbilia Togo baada yake kuenguliwa
Mitaa ya mji mkuu wa Burkina Faso Ouagadougou zimesalia kimya jumatatu baada ya makabiliano kati ya makundi mbili hasimu ya kijeshi.
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Burkina ex-leader Compaore apologises to family of slain Sankara
A Burkina court handed him a life term in absentia in April for his role in the assassination.
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Two Burkina soldiers killed in rebel attack
Armed Islamists based in neighbouring Mali began mounting cross-border raids on Burkina Faso, and neighbouring Niger, in 2015.
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Burkina ex-president Compaore ‘expected’ home by weekend
Burkina Faso’s former leader Blaise Compaore, who was forced into exile in 2014, is expected to return to Ouagadougou shortly for a summit of ex-presidents, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. “By the end of…
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Polish hostage freed in Burkina Faso
In recent years many foreign nationals have been taken hostage in Burkina Faso, which has faced jihadist attacks since 2015 that have left thousands dead and displaced 1.9 million people.
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Ousted Burkina president ‘totally locked up’, his party says
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, was overthrown in an army coup.
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Government: Four miners missing for weeks in Burkina Faso found dead
Six Burkinabe, a Zambian and a Tanzanian went missing in the shafts 700 metres underground.
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Burkina Faso imemuamuru Blaise Compaore kulipa fidia kutokana na mauaji ya Thomas Sankara
Mnamo Aprili 6, Compaore, Kafando na Diendere walihukumiwa kifungo cha maisha kwa kupanga mauaji hayo, huku wengine wakifungwa miaka mitatu hadi 20 jela.
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Thomas Sankara, mwanasiasa wa Afrika aliyetaka ‘kuondoa ukoloni akilini mwa raia’
Sankara alishambuliwa na wanajeshi wenzake wakati wa mapigano yaliyomweka Compaore madarakani. Alikuwa na umri wa miaka 37 tu.
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Burkina Faso’s Ex-president gets life sentence
Ex-President Blaise Compaore, who lives in exile in Ivory Coast, was tried in absentia.
