ABUJA, Nigeria — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced on June 26 that Burkina Faso will break off bilateral relations with Paris. The 2,500 French ...

Capt Traoré seized power in September 2022 and has cultivated an image of a pan-Africanist leader A plot to kill Burkina Faso's military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West ...

In early May, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, launched a series of large-scale, coordinated attacks in the north and east of Burkina Faso, highlighting the deteriorating security ...

The Burkinabè transitional president is seeking to secure his regime since the attempted coup targeting him in late September. To achieve this, he has turned to his Russian allies, who have already ...

Three years into Captain Ibrahim Traoré's leadership, Burkina Faso grapples with a tension between its pursuit of national sovereignty and the safeguarding of civic freedoms. Traoré, who was 37 when ...

In Burkina Faso, on May 25, 2024, a national conference took place to establish the country’s new political agenda. This conference concluded with a five-year extension to its military transition, ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country's latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore arrives at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2025 (RIA Novosti photo by Stanislav Krasilnikov via AP). Click to share on Twitter (Opens ...