Burkina Faso’s largest gold mine, Essakane, produces over 400,000 ounces annually. Despite benefiting from rising gold prices, the Canadian company Iamgold faces soaring costs due to insecurity. The ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony ...
For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern ... spread to Burkina Faso and Niger, and now threatens coastal ...
Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked ... AFP news agency cited a source on the ground as saying that the perpetrators were troops from battalions set up to counter ...
The lender is providing the funds to support the West African country’s solar ambitions under the bank’s Desert to Power ... will encompass four sites. Burkina Faso has one of the lowest ...
a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The violence, which started in Mali in 2012 and has now extended to Burkina Faso and Niger ...