Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday three episodes involving the militia in Burkina Faso have resulted in the forced disappearances and purported deaths of 18 men, the execution of at least ...

The executions coincided with a Feb. 25 report on Burkina Faso national television about a major attack on military targets in Yatenga, one of several areas affected by violent Islamist groups ...

With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso’s security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

ICC report reveals the Wagner Group's alleged human rights violations in Mali and Burkina Faso, highlighting acts of torture ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on Saturday.. The latest execution in Burkina ...

The latest execution in Burkina Faso was in 1988, according to rights group Amnesty International.. It concerned four leaders accused of an attempted coup d’état to depose president Blaise ...

A Burkina Faso rights group on Thursday accused the military of carrying out the "summary execution" of at least 60 people in an anti-jihadist operation last month.

Elian Peltier and Arlette Bashizi traveled across northern Ivory Coast to document the violence faced by civilians who fled neighboring Burkina Faso. Published Dec. 15, 2024Updated Dec. 16, 2024 ...