Burkina Faso shuts down foreign NGOs, citing sovereignty, as repression grows and rights groups warn of democratic and legal ...

his has been accompanied by a consistent crackdown on dissent within civil society and the media, often justified under the ...

Burkina Faso’s military government has withdrawn the operating licences of four foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ...

Military-ruled Burkina Faso has rejected as "baseless accusations" a Human Rights Watch report that soldiers killed at least 223 villagers in two attacks on 25 February.

West African NGO alliance the People’s Coalition for the Sahel demanded on Sunday that Burkina Faso immediately release human rights advocate Daouda Diallo, Secretary General of the Collective Against ...

Hungarians, then, largely rolled their eyes when Transparency International released its 2024 “Corruption Perceptions Index” earlier this year, and they found themselves tied with Burkina Faso ...

Cameroon overtakes Burkina Faso as 'most neglected' crisis: NGO. Every year, the Scandinavian NGO publishes a list of the 10 most neglected crises, based on three criteria for what is lacking: ...

New documents verified by FRANCE 24 illustrate the scale of the atrocities committed by the Burkina Faso army on February 25, 2024. In April, the NGO Human Rights Watch reported the massacre of ...

The attack occurred during the daytime in the Fada N'Gourma-Pama area in eastern Burkina Faso. In addition to the NGO workers, the patrol group also consisted of soldiers, forest rangers and ...

Burkina Faso has been rocked by two coups since the start of the year, with each new leader accusing the previous of having failed to quell the violence. In seven years, more than 1,000 civilians and ...

Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in village raid: NGO. Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and children, in attacks on two villages accused of ...

Burkina's military junta, which seized power in a September 2022 coup, has made the return of national sovereignty one of its priorities.