Three West African nations ruled by military commanders after recent coups are speaking with one voice to reject Western ...

Burkina Faso's military government has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted in the 2015 failed coup against the transitional government The amnesty excludes top coup leaders but allows the pardoned ...

Burkina Faso's military junta leader Ibrahim Traore has sought deeper military ties with Russia since seizing power in a coup ...

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 ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning away from former Western allies ...

Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has never left Nigeria, yet he speaks glowingly of Ibrahim Traore, the ...

Burkina Faso's new president came to power in a dramatic coup, winning hearts across Africa with fiery rhetoric and viral social media appeal.

and was killed four years later in another coup that put Burkina Faso back in France's political orbit until Traoré's seizure of power. Ghanaian security analyst Prof Kwesi Aning, who previously ...