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 record-high gold prices to ...

Foreign ministers of military-ruled Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said on Monday they endorse an initiative ...

The latest tensions are a wake-up call for the AU, which has lost influence in the Sahel-Saharan region.The current diplomatic crisis between Algeria and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) presents ...

A week after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso, the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou, particularly among the armed ...