In the video, a man in an army uniform with a distinctive Burkina Faso flag on his left shoulder is seen leaning over the mutilated body on the ground. A head lies nearby, alongside the body of a ...

They describe them wearing military uniforms, one with a Burkina Faso flag fastened to him as he tried to warn a group of civilians that anyone found alive would be killed. The farmer saw a ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country ...

Some protesters carried the national flags of Burkina Faso and Russia. In December, Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo said the Burkina Faso military government invited in mercenaries from the ...

Some of the group also held Russian flags - a sign of the complicated political undercurrents shaping the region. Both Burkina Faso and neighbouring Mali are ruled by military juntas which seized ...

Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has never left Nigeria, yet he speaks glowingly of Ibrahim Traore, the ...

During the coup in Burkina Faso last Friday, civilians and troops took to the streets with Russian flags, saying they wanted the country's security partnership with France replaced by one with Russia.

OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader ... atop armoured personnel carriers, waving Russian flags, while the crowd around chanted "Russia!

Langley with the word “slave” written on his head with red marker. Others waved Burkina Faso and Russia’s flag, a close ally of the West African country. Ocibi Johann, a musician who came to ...