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Reuters  —  As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country’s latest military ruler,…

Issued on: 02/10/2022 - 23:28 Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba left the country for Togo Sunday two days after he himself was overthrown…

Issued on: 30/09/2022 - 12:22 Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso's presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup…

Issued on: 13/09/2022 - 03:55 Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and…

The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch.Two of Compaore's former top associates, Hyacinthe Kafando…

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life in jail over his role in the 1987 murder of the country's revolutionary folk hero Thomas Sankara, a military court ruled on Wednesday,…

Issued on: 06/03/2022 - 01:38 Burkina Faso's interim president Paul-Henri Damiba has approved a new government that includes the same defence minister as served under former…

Issued on: 16/02/2022 - 12:40 Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a…

Jubilant crowds paraded through Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, blowing into vuvuzelas after the Burkinabe Stallions edged out Tunisia in a 1-0 victory on Saturday to advance to the semifinals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).…

Issued on: 28/01/2022 - 15:53 West Africa's main regional bloc on Friday suspended Burkina Faso from its governing bodies over this week's military coup and decided to send a…