(VOVWORLD) - West African nations including Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger on Sunday released a joint statement announcing their withdrawal from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS
(VOVWORLD) - At least a dozen Niger soldiers were killed following an attack by hundreds of armed insurgents on motorbikes in the country's southwest on Thursday morning, the West African...
(VOVWORLD) - Niger has authorised Mali and Burkina Faso's armed forces to intervene on its territory in case of an attack, the countries said in a joint statement on Thursday,...
(VOVWORLD) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the military coup in Burkina Faso to oust President Roch Kabore is unacceptable. The role of the military is to defend its...
(VOVWORLD) - Burkina Faso's army said it took control of the country on Monday, deposing President Roch Kabore, dissolving the government and parliament, suspending the constitution, and closing the...
(VOVWORLD) - At least 132 civilians were killed in the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years, the government said on Saturday
(VOVWORLD) - French President Emmanuel Macron and leaders of the G5 Sahel have been holding talks from Monday on the future of their campaign against insurgencies raging in the Sahel
(VOVWORLD) - 8 new sites were added to the world heritages list at the 43rd session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee, which was held...
(VOVWORLD) - Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian's aide said Friday France's embassy and cultural institute in the Burkina Faso capital are no longer in danger as four gunmen...
(VOVworld) - Gilles Thibault, France's ambassador to Burkina Faso, said 27 were dead while 150 hostages of 18 nationalities have been rescued from the attack on Splendid Hotel in Burkina...
(VOVworld) – Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh told reporters on Saturday that “Vietnam is concerned and condemns repeated terror attacks in recent days, particularly in Burkina Faso on January 15, which...
(VOVworld) – 33 hostages have been freed from Splendid hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso that was attacked by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Friday
(VOVworld) - Burkina Faso officially recognized Vietnam’s market economy status in a diplomatic note of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 13
(VOVworld)- Burkina Faso has officially recognised Vietnam’s market economy status in a diplomatic note of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 23
(VOVworld) - Burkina Faso is setting up checkpoints at its borders and will eventually look to close its borders for the upcoming general election, Burkina Faso Security Minister Alain Jean-Claude...
(VOVworld) - Political party representatives said Burkina Faso’s presidential and parliamentary elections would take place on November 29 after a short-lived coup in September disrupted the original election timeline
(VOVworld) - The leader of the coup d’état force in Burkina Faso claims to release the interim President Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Issaac Zida, who are under their detention
(VOVworld) - A medical evacuation plane with seven people on board, including a French patient, disappeared off the coast of Senegal on Saturday night during a flight from Burkina Faso to Dakar...
(VOVworld) – The Chairman of the African Union (AU), Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, arrived in Burkina Faso on Monday for urgent talks on the country's political transition
(VOVworld) - Burkina Faso's army-appointed leader, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, promised Tuesday to give power back to a civilian government