Security analysts are divided. Vladimir Antwi-Danso called it unprecedented for a visiting head of state to carry a firearm ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes ...

An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Beninese army post near the Burkina Faso ...

Francis Ahovi, a security analyst and Executive Secretary of Global Security for Africa Research and Good Governance ...

The law that could see 2015 coup plotters pardoned might set a dangerous precedent, while the current president has already ...

Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...

Burkina Faso's military leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore, sparked concern when he attended Tuesday's inauguration of Ghana's ...

Twenty-eight soldiers died in an attack in northern Benin, a small West African nation increasingly witnessing violence attributed to jihadists based in neighbouring countries, a security source told ...

Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré was given a rousing welcome when he mounted the stage to congratulate Ghana's newly ...

Benin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso's military leader, was greeted warmly as he entered the stage to congratulate President ...

Manchester City has loaned Issa Kaboré to Werder Bremen for the rest of the season. The move sends the Burkina Faso defender ...