Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore arrives to the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025.

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries. Burkina ...

MFWA's human rights day message draws attention to how intimidation and repression have become routine tools for silencing dissent across the region.

Burkina Faso's Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to reinstate the death penalty, targeting crimes like treason, ...

The adoption of this bill is part of reforms ... to have a justice that responds to the deep aspirations of our people,” ...

Burkina Faso's Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to restore the death penalty for treason, terrorism, and espionage ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s regime in Burkina Faso presents a paradox. On one hand, Traoré has engaged in bold, symbolic decolonisation by expelling French troops and cutting military ties with the ...

DAKAR, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The military-led West African countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, denouncing it as "a tool of ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said the court had become a tool of neocolonial repression. All three governments have been accused of human rights violations. By Ruth Maclean and ...

Quentin, like others in Burkina Faso, fears a new anti-gay law will spark a "witch hunt" against the already at-risk LGBTQ community, which has been forced even further underground. Adopted earlier ...

Burkina Faso's new family law criminalising consensual same-sex relations deepens concerns over growing repression under the military junta. This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 3 ...