Burkina Faso is in West Africa's Sahel region, which is considered the new global epicentre of the Islamic State group and is also home to numerous others jihadist groups. A large deployment of ...

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?

Last week a government source told the media that Burkina Faso’s military junta plans to reinstate the death penalty, which ...

Burkina Faso have somewhat underperformed in the last few years after ... recognisable players such as Edmund Tapsoba and ...