Independent English-language coverage of Burkina Faso's most pressing news and developments.
Can Senegal’s President really dissolve a parliament led by his rival? Bassirou Diomaye Faye has openly acknowledged his break with Ousmane Sonko, and he is leaving the door open to dissolving the National Assembly — […]
What is really at stake for young Cameroonians on social media? Social media informs, entertains, and connects people — but it can also manipulate, divide, and expose. In Cameroon, these platforms have become an unavoidable […]
When Niger’s military government moved to strip several of its own citizens of their nationality, it simultaneously kept a Beninese activist wanted by Cotonou under its official wing. That contradiction now sits at the heart […]
Economy Can Gabon’s poultry import ban survive the WTO test? Libreville, Thursday 24 September 2026 – The dispute between Libreville and Washington over poultry imports goes far beyond what sits in a freezer. At its […]
A single day, two deadly attacks: what really happened on september 23 September 23, 2026, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in Niger’s recent security history. Within hours, Nigerien forces suffered heavy […]
What if a country’s debt burden could be turned into a tool for educating its children? That was the central question when Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, Minister of Planning and Development, travelled to New York for […]
The cameras rolled, the armored vehicles gleamed, and the rhetoric soared. Burkina Faso’s transitional government knows how to stage a military parade. But behind the carefully choreographed images of the Chinese-made Sky Dragon 30 air-defense […]
In Burkina Faso, the line separating counter-extremism from a crackdown on religious freedom has never been blurrier. Under the banner of rooting out the armed threat tearing at the nation, the transitional government led by […]
The early morning attack in the Abala-Filingué department has dealt another crushing blow to the nation. A patrol of the Rapid Action Group for Surveillance and Intervention (GARSI) was ambushed by terrorists in an assault […]
Can Benin turn its commitment to social equity into tangible change for people with disabilities? The latest handover of 1,422 chance equality cards suggests the government is trying, but the question remains whether these documents […]
In the early hours of Wednesday, 23 September 2026, a quiet township roughly 30 kilometres south of Durban became the scene of yet another mass killing. At least 11 people — among them a pregnant […]
The gap between official declarations and what is actually happening on the ground has become almost impossible to ignore. While Captain Ibrahim Traoré continues to tell audiences that Burkina Faso is edging ever closer to […]