Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Burkina Faso is a west African dryland country known for its diverse ecosystems, including savannas, forests and wetlands.

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...

"Many of Burkina Faso’s professionals and political figures ... adding that the project to establish a Russian Center for Science and Culture, where Russian will be taught, is at its final ...

Culture, Arts and Tourism Rimtalba, Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo NAIROBI, January 26. /TASS/. Russia donated 25,000 tons of grain to Burkina Faso as part of a humanitarian supply, the ceremony took ...

The military-led governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have officially left ECOWAS ... DW AfricaLink is packed with news, politics, culture and more — every weekday.

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States – from West African bloc Ecowas is set to take effect on 29 January, with security experts ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

In a huge blow to Ecowas, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are leaving to forge ahead with their own group. Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traore had a holstered pistol in what some saw a security breach.