[RFI] Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, has apologised to the ex-leader's family.

[allAfrica] Remarks by the French ambassador in Burkina Faso, Luc Hollade has caused anger and controversy to such an extent, that certain civil society organisations and political players are demanding his departure.

[Ghanaian Times] Binduri -- A Ghanaian was among two civilians, who were killed in recent suspected insurgency in neighbouring Burkina Faso, last week.

[Ghanaian Times] Bawku -- Personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service have intensified patrols at the Ghana-Burkina Faso border at Mognori, and Ghana-Togo border, in Bawku in the Upper East Region to avert any acts of terrorism.

[allAfrica] A plane carrying Blaiselanded at 2 p.m. at an airbase in Ouagadougou on July 7, 2022 and was airlifted to an unknown destination. A few hundred of his supporters were at the Ouagadougou airport to see their leader return to the country af...

[UN News] Over the last 10 years, the number of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes and become displaced in their own countries, has more than doubled. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the increase in internally...

[DW] Islamist militants killed at least 22 people and injured several others in Burkina Faso, a government official said.

[RFI] Suspected jihadists killed at least 27 people in two separate attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso at the weekend, according to local sources,.

[VOA] African leaders have lifted economic sanctions on Mali.

[DW] Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers agreed to return to civilian rule by March 2024 and published a new electoral law.