Tensions remain high in the aftermath of a coup in Niger Republic as the military junta refused entry to a negotiating mission planned for Tuesday by the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU). The military governments of Mali and Burkina...
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde were dominant in a 3-1 triumph over Burkina Faso at the Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde on Sunday. The spectators erupted with joy as Bebé opened scoring in the 7th minute, expertly finishing off a play orchestrated by Cape Verde’s Patrick Andrade. Comfortable on home turf, the...
Burkina Faso ended their sojourn at the U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) with a place on the podium. This was after they edged out Mali 2-1 in the play-off in Annaba on Thursday night to finish third. The Burkinabe enjoyed sweet revenge against the Malians having lost by...
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco and Mali will represent Africa at the 2023 FIFA U17 World Cup. The four sides sealed their places following the conclusion of the quarter-final matches at the U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023...
Nigeria’s Under 17 team, Golden Eaglets have crashed out of the ongoing Under 17 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Algeria. The team lost 1-2 to their Burkina Faso counterparts in the quarter finals of the event at the Nelson Mandela Stadium on Thursday. The result means that Nigeria...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appreciated President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for his support to regional integration and security. President, ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, said this at the First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament on Monday. “Permit me to begin by expressing...
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says children are increasingly caught up in armed conflict in the climate-affected, food insecure central Sahel region. “Brutal” armed conflict has left 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in need of humanitarian assistance – more than double the number in 2020, UNICEF...
At least 110 terrorists were killed in Burkina Faso within a few days as the government targeted rebel groups in the north and the south of the West African country with airstrikes. The state news agency AIB reported on Tuesday evening. An army spokesperson confirmed the offensive without saying...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the murder of a number Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Kaolak, Senegal, when the buses conveying them came under gun attack in Burkina Faso. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehe...
Islamist militants have kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The women were kidnapped in separate incidents on Thursday and Friday as they foraged for food, in...
Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and eight civilian auxiliaries in an attack Saturday in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, security sources told AFP. The soldiers, who were patrolling with the auxiliaries, were caught in an ambush in the district of Bouroum, said one source. Another source, confirming the attack,...
Security forces fired tear gas at dozens of rock-throwing protesters outside the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday, according to an AFP journalist, as unrest simmered in the West African country following its second coup this year. Supporters of Burkina’s newest putsch leader had gathered outside the...
Shots rang out in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday and heavily armed security forces drove through the centre in a convoy, a day after President Paul-Henri Damiba was ousted in the second coup the West African country has seen this year. It was not immediately clear what was happening...
Shots rang out before dawn on Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and headquarters of the military junta, which itself seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. The government said the developing situation was linked to an “internal crisis in the army”, after AFP journalists saw...
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, says there is need for stronger collaboration between West African armed forces to deal with insecurity in the sub-region. Irabor stated this when he hosted the Burkinabe Chief of Defence Staff, Senior Col. David Kadre at the Defence Headquarters on Thursday in...
The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will take on Burkina Faso in the final match of the 2022 WAFU B Under-17 tournament on Friday in Cape Coast, Ghana. In the competition’s second semi-final match on Tuesday, Burkina Faso edged hosts Ghana 1-0. This was courtesy of a second half penalty...
A military court in Burkina Faso on Wednesday handed down a life prison term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. Applause erupted in the courtroom as the long-awaited verdict was read out, bringing the curtain down on a case that has...
Hosts Cameroon finished third at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday after wiping out a three-goal deficit against Burkina Faso to draw 3-3, then win 5-3 on penalties. Ambroise Oyongo scored the decisive penalty in Yaounde as the Indomitable Lions atoned for missing three kicks when losing a...
The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday said the coup in Mali was “contagious” and had led to subsequent coups in the region. Akufo-Addo explained that Mali’s coup in August 2020 was followed by a second military coup in the West...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has joined other West African leaders for an emergency summit following the spate of coups in the subregion. Osinbajo left with Nigeria’s delegate early Thursday for Accra, Ghana for the Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government deliberating. Emergency talks...