For some, Africa has an unfortunate reputation. Outdated stereotypes abound of poverty and people living in mud huts while wild animals walk through the dusty streets. While mud huts are certainly ...

And as we have learnt and laughed with Anansi, so the Mossi have done the same with Mba Soambe, the hare: another alumni of the trickster academy. That evening became known as the Calabash Workshop; ...

I peer into my calabash for another sip ... has ‘‘mind your own business’’ stamped all over it. With Burkina Faso to its north and Togo on the East, the Bawku town is a beehive of ...

The advancing tide of Islamist extremism has prompted the rise of pro-government militias. The result has been a vicious ...

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

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...

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 ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in neighbouring Burkina Faso, describing scenes of sometimes indiscriminate ...

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault on a town in southern Burkina Faso. The attack occurred on January ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, takes effect on Wednesday after a year of political tensions, fracturing the region and ...