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Burkina Faso

July 2024

  • Col Assimi Goïita, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, and Capt Ibrahim Traoré (R) salute as they stand to attention at the summit. All are wearing military uniform

    Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the region
  • Security footage shows police apprehending teenagers in Brazil on 3 July.

    Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint

    Ministry of foreign affairs forced to say sorry to Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso embassies after incident
  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

    About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help

May 2024

  • Gilbert Kabore a worker and caddie of the Golf Club Ouagadougou

    The alternatives
    ‘Our green is brown’: the eco-friendly Sahel golf club avoiding the water hazard

  • India Media Police Raids<br>Activists of various student organizations hold placards in a protest against the raids of homes of journalists and writers belonging a news portal in New Delhi, India on October 04, 2023. Indian Police officials raided the homes of journalists and writers belonging to a news portal known as NewsClick.in on Tuesday . (Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    Rights and freedom
    More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds

April 2024

  • Ibrahim Traoré

    Burkina Faso bans more media over coverage of alleged massacre

  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

  • A cattle-drawn hay-laden cart move down a dusty road in Segou Region, Mali, West Africa.

    The Guardian view on the Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

  • Cattle-drawn haycart

    Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds

March 2024

  • Dancers practicing at the Ankata centre in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

    ‘It gave me a voice’: the Burkina Faso dance school opening doors for young talent

  • A soldier stands in the middle of a road holding a rifle, as people and traffic pass by

    About 170 people ‘executed’ in Burkina Faso village attacks, official says

February 2024

  • A classroom in Gando primary school, with red brick walls, wooden slats on the windows, wooden benches and a blackboard.

    The alternatives
    ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat

  • A man in a Congolese cobalt mine

    African leaders call for equity over minerals used for clean energy

  • Sunday mass in a Catholic church in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    Raiders kill at least a dozen worshippers at Burkina Faso church

  • Young men with their faces covered running down a street as black smoke billows from a bonfire

    Is democracy dying in Africa? Senegal’s slide into chaos bodes ill in a year of key elections

January 2024

  • Nels Abbey

    Moments of hope
    Success is contagious – so I’m rooting for the African countries throwing off European rule

    Nels Abbey
    The recent coups and subsequent pacts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are a source of hope in a sea of landlocked hopelessness, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

October 2023

  • User experience or customer satisfaction concept.

    Brief letters
    Who’s got time for customer reviews?

  • Teacher by blackboard

    ‘Good morning, children’: Burkina Faso radio station aids learning amid jihadist disruption

  • La Pensée Accroupie, 1983 (The Crouching Thinker, 1983)

    West Africa’s style icons … and the tiny studio that shot them – in pictures

  • Women waving Niger flags, blowing horns and holding placards.

    France’s departure from Niger reflects years of failure in its former colonies

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