Burkina Faso is among Africa’s poorer countries ... In the early days after the coup, Traoré said that the soldiers would waste no time getting Burkina Faso back on track, and that he would ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and hostile to the West.

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At a time when Africa is convulsed by various threats and American interests could be at risk, United States influence is in retreat.

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Monday he would run for a second term in November, backtracking on ...

For instance, Russia is implicated in the 2020 and 2021 coups in Mali and the Burkina Faso coup. The UK, the US, China and France are all interested in Africa. Since the expulsion of France from ...

Gabon's interim President Brice Oligui Nguema will run in the Central African nation's presidential election scheduled for ...

Gabon's military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has announced his intention to run for president in next month's election.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...