Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso has opened his country’s first gold refinery with his military-led government aiming to process more of the nation’s mineral wealth at home and tighten its ...

Burkina Faso is a major African gold producer but has struggled to regulate informal mining.

Fighting to contain an Islamist insurgency, while asserting national pride, is the military leader of Burkina Faso a messiah ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June 2025, videos surfaced on social media alleging that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had told interim ...

In Burkina Faso, on May 25, 2024, a national conference took place to establish the country’s new political agenda. This conference concluded with a five-year extension to its military transition, ...

Burkina Faso on Wednesday marks four years since military strongman Captain Ibrahim Traoré took over in a coup. Comparing himself to anti-colonial icon Thomas Sankara, Traoré promised a "progressive ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official ...

If viral videos online are to be believed, R. Kelly and Pope Leo XIV agree on one thing; that Burkina Faso's junta leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, is a remarkable head of state. The images, however, ...

Once backed by influential Muslim scholars, Burkina Faso’s military leader is now facing a growing rift over arrests, new legislation and his campaign against what he describes as religious extremism.

Jihadist violence has emptied restoration sites across the north and east. But fragmented funding, poor data and donor reluctance to work in conflict zones are also pushing the initiative’s 2030 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean Marie Traore attends a joint news conference following a meeting of Russian foreign ...