Many events and conversations took place behind closed doors before French President Manuel Macron backed down and accepted popular demands in Niger.
These demands included the withdrawal of all French forces and the departure of the French (...)
Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup to topple Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on Sept. 30, has been officially appointed to lead the transitional period of Burkina Faso, according to a agreement reached by a national assembly Friday (...)
The African Union (AU) condemned on Saturday the coup that took place in Burkina Faso on Friday.
According to an official statement, Chairperson of the AU Commission Moussa Faki condemned the "unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina (...)
The African Union (AU) announced on Monday that it has suspended Burkina Faso's membership in response to the 24 January coup that ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
The 15-nation bloc's Peace and Security Council said it voted "in favour (...)
Egyptian filmmaker Nesrine Lotfy Al Zayat's debut documentary feature On the Fence was selected to take part in the competition at the 27th FESPACO (Pan-African Film & TV Festival of Ouagadougou) in Burkina Faso (16-23 October). Having premiered in (...)
The bodies of two Spanish journalists and an Irish wildlife activist killed by jihadists in Burkina Faso this week while they were filming a documentary on poaching were flown home Friday as several European countries vowed to keep fighting (...)
In Libya's frontline city of Sirte, parts of which still lie in ruins, the commission set up to oversee warring rivals' recent ceasefire has put its name on a large downtown conference centre - an outward sign of its commitment to peace.
So far the (...)
The last time Amado Compaore saw his wife, she asked him for a phone charger so she could text friends and let them know she was OK. She died just hours later.
Rose Marie Compaore, 62, Burkina Faso's second Vice President of the parliament, became (...)
The vast Sahel-Sahara region, which spans Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, has become home to such terrorist organisations as the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (...)
The vast Sahel-Sahara region, which spans Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, has become home to such terrorist organisations as the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (...)
An important event for Egypt's film community since it was established by documentary filmmaker Hashem Al-Nahhas in 1991 (initially as round 11 of a Cairo documentary festival that had been held in 1971-1980), the annual Ismailia International Film (...)
Stay tuned as match is due to start at 18:00 Cairo time (GMT+2)
Venue: 4 Août, Ouagadougou
Referee: Quadri Ololade Adebimpe
(For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at (...)
Egyptian side Masry, who reached the semi-finals last season, are on the brink of waving goodbye to the CAF Confederation Cu at the first hurdle after suffering a shock 2-0 home loss by Burkina Faso's Salitas on Saturday.
Masry fell behind after 32 (...)
“I am free in Algeria!” sang the world-famous Miriam Makeba, in Arabic, in 1972. Last week, the Algerian minister of culture, the eminent poet and writer Azzedine Mihoubi, launched an award that pays tribute to this internationally celebrated singer (...)
المؤسسة الدولية الإسلامية لتمويل التجارة ITFC تبرم اتفاقية إطارية بقيمة 1.5 مليار دولار أمريكي مع حكومة بوركينا فاسو; الإعلان عن طرح برنامج لتمكين الشركات الصغيرة والمتوسطة في دول غرب أفريقيا من الحصول على الدعم التمويلي
أعلنت المؤسسة الدولية (...)
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 5, 2018 (MENA) – France carried out air strikes in northern Burkina Faso after Islamist militants attacked a police unit at a local gold mine, the latest incident to underscore rising insurgency in the West African region, Euronews (...)
Cairo, March 19 (MENA) - Egyptian embassies in all African countries began on Monday the vote counting for the presidential elections.
The vote counting started at all sub-committees in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Bujumbura, Luanda, N'Djamena, Lusaka, (...)
Burkina Faso's President Mark Roch said his country would fight and defeat militants despite being hit by Islamist insurgents in the capital last week in an attack which 8 people were killed and dozens wounded.
Roche was joined by the presidents of (...)
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, March 3, 2018 (AP) — Market trading and street life is slowly returning to normal in Burkina Faso's capital city a day after Islamic extremists attacked the French Embassy and army headquarters in assaults, killing eight (...)
OUAGADOUGOU, March 3, 2018 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba on Saturday toured the army headquarters and French embassy in the capital Ouagadougou, a day after attacks at those two sites left 16 people dead, including eight (...)
Egypt condemned in the ‘strongest terms' twin attacks that targeted Friday the French embassy and army headquarters in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, killing at least 35 people.
In an official statement Saturday, Egypt's foreign ministry (...)
A Mali-based affiliate of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou that killed eight people at the army headquarters and French embassy, according to the Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar.
The (...)
Egypt strongly condemned the terror attack on the French embassy, French cultural centre, and army headquarters in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
The (...)
OUAGADOUGOU, March 2, 2018 (News agencies) - Gunfire and an explosion have been heard near the army headquarters and the French embassy in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou on Friday.
Witnesses have reported seeing armed men getting out of a (...)
OUAGADOUGOU, March 2, 2018 (Reuters) - Unidentified assailants killed five people and wounded around 50 others during an attack on Burkina Faso's military headquarters in the capital Ouagadougou on Friday, said government spokesman Remi (...)