Junta chief captain Ibrahim Traoré has pursued anti-Western policies since seizing power in a coup in September 2022, while ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced on June 26 that Burkina Faso will break off bilateral relations with Paris. The 2,500 French ...

Burkina Faso’s 2023 decision to terminate a 1965 double taxation treaty with France marked one of the country’s most consequential economic policy shifts since independence. The agreement had governed ...

The West African country's junta accused the former colonial power of undermining its national interests.

Anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies as the continent becomes a renewed diplomatic battleground.

Burkina Faso has recovered more than $16 million and shut down dozens of illegal gold trading operations as Ibrahim Traore’s government intensifies its campaign against gold fraud. Authorities say 93 ...

Military-led Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, its former colonial master and security partner, capping several years of tensions since a junta seized power in the west ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim ...

The ceremony was intended to be symbolic. However, it perfectly illustrates the desire of Burkina Faso’s transitional authorities to seek out new partnerships. On 12 June, Captain Ibrahim Traoré was ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country's latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, ...

To understand Ibrahim Traoré is to understand a man confronted by the slow dissolution of the state itself — that apparatus of collective survival which, when it falters, leaves in its wake not merely ...

Stripped of her nationality by Abdourahamane Tiani, Nigerien activist Mariama Djibrine ‘Mayra’ has no intention of abandoning her fight. At the helm of the Alliance of Democrats of the Sahel (ADS), ...