Burkina Faso

Coup leaders in Niger have said that they are willing to resolve a standoff with West Africa's regional bloc through diplomacy.

At least 44 civilians have been killed in two separate attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso

The new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism is sub-Saharan Africa where people are increasingly joining because of economic factors.

The mutinous soldiers who ousted Burkina Faso’s democratically elected president early this year vowed they would do a better job at stopping the jihadi violence rocking the country.

Martine Roamba’s 10-month-old daughter weakly tugs at her mother’s breast searching for milk.

Burkina Faso grieves in loss of 63 people.

The death toll of terrorist attack on Sunday in northern Burkina Faso raised from 20 to 32 including 28 soldiers, government spokesman said Monday.

At least 20 people, including 19 gendarmes, were killed on Sunday in a terrorist attack against the detachment of the Inata gendarmerie, in Soum province in the Sahel region, Security Minister Maxim Kone announced on the national radio of Burkina Faso.

Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, Fatima Amadou was shocked by what she saw among the attackers: children.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to show solidarity with people.