Three Burkinabe journalists arrested over criticism of the junta have appeared in a video, saying they are at the front line ...

Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

Selfish MPs • How can MPs justify their latest Sh360,000 salary increase when intern doctors are being denied their union-negotiated salaries due to “lack of funds”? asks Ruth Gituma. “It’s ironical ...

I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

The Donald Trump administration gathered female activists from around the world on 1 April to recognise and elevate their ...

The juntas in West Africa have discovered the sweetness of power and seem reluctant to hand ...

Burkina Faso’s Justice Ministry announced that approximately 1,200 people convicted in connection with the coup attempt would ...

The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according ...

Politicians silent • The politicians, who have been lambasting the government, are now silent on the hefty pay rise for the lawmakers, says Chris Kiriba. “But they can’t speak because since 2013, they ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015, have received a presidential pardon. The troubled west African country has been run since ...

That being said, it is instructive that most of the reaction to the move has zeroed in on the question of foreign aid, ...

The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according ...