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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta issued a decree Friday dismissing Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and announcing the dissolution of the ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: More than two million facing hunger in Burkina Faso: government
More than a tenth of the population in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African country plagued by jihadist violence, is at risk of hunger, according to government figures issued on Thursday. A ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso’s Government of Change Confronts Imperialism
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in September 2022. His government seeks to finish off the remnants of French ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso’s government is committing war crimes
The order given in December 2023 was “to enter the hive and eat the warriors’ honey”. The previous month jihadists had attacked a military base in northern Burkina Faso. In response, the national army ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso grants mining lease to Russia's Nordgold for gold project
April 25 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso government forces accused of civilian deaths in new report
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Government forces in Burkina Faso killed over twice as many civilians as militant jihadist groups over a two-year period, according to a study by Human Rights Watch, which ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso: Government-Allied Militias Linked to Massacre
(Nairobi) – Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of Solenzo ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: They fled from extremists. Now the government in Burkina Faso tries to hide their existence
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and ...
News Burkina Faso » Nord » Government: Burkina Faso massacre video appears to implicate government-allied militia, watchdog says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government-allied militia, Human Rights Watch said, calling on ...