[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...