Burkina Faso
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Kabore’s state and whereabouts have been a key issue since he was overthrown by mutineering soldiers on Monday. President Kabore is physically well and still under the hands of army kept in a presidential villa under arrest, a source from Kabore’s People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) party. “He has a doctor available… (and) access […]
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been detained, on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou, sources told AFP. “President Kabore, the head of parliament and the ministers are effectively in the hands of the soldiers” at the Sangoule Lamizana barracks in the capital Ouagadougou, […]
Oscar-winning actor Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso sheltering thousands of Malians who have fled jihadist violence in the region. Jolie visited the camp at Goudebou, in the northeast of the landlocked west African country, as part of her role as an ambassador for the UN refugee organisation, the […]
At least 100 people were killed in a “barbaric attack” by gunmen targeting a village in north-eastern Burkina Faso, said the West African country’s president, Roch Kabore, on Saturday. Kabore said he had ordered three days of national mourning over the attack on the village of Solhan in the conflict-ridden Sahel region. Security forces […]
Crown FM Onitsha