Mali's military junta has started building the West African state's first-ever gold refinery in partnership with a Russian ...

Analysis - Despite a recent surge in terrorist attacks, the region is more at risk of fragmentation than centralised jihadist rule.

Despite a prolonged fallout within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria is making diplomatic ...

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

Some African presidents flew straight to Ouagadougou to sign the interim unity documents when they could not land. Some ...

With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso’s security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

"I said I wanted to do a free show in Burkina Faso and I got a lot of Positivity ... who in 2022 took over the government in a coup. Traore's reforms and vocal rejection of imperialism have ...

Traore became Burkina Faso’s military leader after a coup in September 2022 amid growing anti-French sentiment in the Sahel region (archived here). He is a frequent topic of viral social media posts ...

A video of Pope Leo addressing media professionals has been altered to show him praising Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traore. Vatican News in a statement said the widely shared clip ...

Footage of Ivorian soccer fans celebrating in the street after a 2024 Africa Cup victory has been shared online with baseless claims that it shows a "coup" in the country in May. It was one of ...