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 Outdated stereotypes abound of poverty and people living in mud huts while wild animals walk through the dusty streets.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 ...

He told us of the Golden Stallion, as every Hollywood director, wants to win the Oscar. He took us to Burkina Faso, because of the calabash, known here as squash. You see, we’d been talking about an ...

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 ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

A new flour mill with a daily capacity of 220 tonnes of flour and 80 tonnes of bran was inaugurated in Gampéla, Burkina Faso, ...

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

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 ...

As many Africans sour on the West, a new generation of military officers are seizing power, vowing to build strong and ...

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 ...