Burkina Faso announced Thursday a recruitment drive for 5,000 soldiers to serve in the army for at least five years to aid the country in its fight against jihadists.The country, one of the world's poorest, has been battling a deadly insurgency since...

The body of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried Thursday alongside 12 comrades at the spot where they were assassinated in a coup three decades ago, the country's junta has said.No date had previously been set for the r...

Twenty-eight bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso over the weekend, the government said, noting an investigation was underway as speculation grew over who may responsible.Attacks targeting the security forces and civilians have increased in re...

By AFPJihadists have dynamited bridges and mounted deadly attacks against supply convoys, blockading Burkina Faso's northern town of Djibo and leaving its people destitute."The situation is catastrophic in Djibo," said Idrissa Badini, a spokesman for...

Captain Ibrahim Traore has been appointed as the new president of Burkina Faso by the military council following the coup that the country witnessed last week.The military statement issued on Wednesday said that Traore will now be the guarantor of na...

By AFPHaulier Aziz falters as he describes how jihadists attacked a convoy of lorries laden with food for a starving town in northern Burkina Faso on September 26, events which contributed to the country's latest coup.Aziz was driving his lorry carry...

Military officers have seized control of Burkina Faso, claiming to be restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they overthrew a junta leader who had also come to power in a coup at the start of this year.In the capital Ouagadougou, pre-dawn...

Burkina Faso on Tuesday began three days of national mourning after suspected jihadists killed at least 50 civilians in one of the worst attacks since the military seized power in January.Strongman, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, issu...

At least six people were killed in northern Burkina Faso in several attacks attributed to jihadists, local and military sources told AFP on Sunday.Several hundred people took to the streets of Burkina over the weekend to protest the wave of jihadist...