Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

By that point, Traoré had expelled military forces sent by France — Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler — a decade earlier to help counter the swelling Islamist militancy. He had also ...

Western media, particularly the French, have launched a massive disinformation campaign against West African countries such ...

In 2022, a France-based NGO, Promediation ... Ghana" and from "many" ethnic groups were joining the insurgency in Burkina Faso. "Some are fighting for jihad. Some are doing it for business ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), which will open this next weekend in the capital of Burkina Faso." Cissé was the first Black African filmmaker to win a ...

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84 ...

It's tempting to conflate France's military exit from Cote d'Ivoire with its withdrawals from other regional countries. But ...

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84 ...