The Black Satellites will come up against Nigeria and Burkina Faso in the Group stage of the WAFU Zone B U-20 Championship to be staged in Niger May 7-20, 2022. The draw which was held in Niamey on Friday saw Ghana’s National U-20 side, who are the defending champions paired with the Golden Eaglets and […]
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More than 34 years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, a trial to establish the facts has taken place. For some, justice that has been delayed for deceades is finally being served. Some 34 years after the killing of Burkina Faso’s former leader Thomas Sankara, closure over his untimely death that ended the revolutionary’s reign in 1987 […]
The country’s former president, Blaise Compaoré, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for his participation in the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, killed with twelve of his companions during a coup d’etat in 1987. He was sentenced in absentia. The Ouagadougou military court also sentenced the commander of its guard, Hyacinthe Kafando, […]
Cape Town — Fourteen defendants who were prosecuted on October 25, 2021 for the assassination of Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara in a 1987 coup, will know their fate on April 6, 2022. The trial is before the Ouagadougou military court. Twelve of the fourteen people present in court, include General Gilbert Diendéré, 61, one […]
The Burkinabè government has responded to concerns raised at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of state summit held in Accra on March 25, 2022. In a press release, ECOWAS said they were very concerned about the duration of the transition set at 36 months and also called for the immediate and unconditional […]
For more than 20 years, Franco-Senegalese lawyer Anta Guissé has worked for the defence at international tribunals for Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as the International Criminal Court. Now she has just pleaded for victims’ families in Burkina Faso in the trial on the assassination of former president Thomas Sankara, where the verdict is expected […]
The former Burkinabè president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has been under house arrest for two months since the coup that brought the military to power. There are growing calls for his release by the Burkinabè people. Sources close to the former president say he is not being held in fixed residence but moved around regularly […]
The unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russia has shocked the world. But, should we have really been surprised. The trend toward autocratic leadership that cares nothing about the basic principles of democracy or its citizens has been on the rise for years. In January the takeover of the government by the military in Burkina Faso […]
The Authority of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is demanding the finalisation of an acceptable transition timetable from Guinea’s Transitional Authority no later than 25th April 2022. The ECOWAS Authority said it will impose economic and financial sanctions on Guinea if the transitional Authority in Guinea fails to comply with the demands […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened to impose financial and economic sanctions against Burkina Faso if the military government fails to set a timetable to return the country to constitutional rule. The ECOWAS Authority, chaired by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, took the decision at an extraordinary summit in Accra last […]
Niamey, March 14, 2022 : Niger is hosting from March 14 to 18, a series of training sessions led by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). These sessions, which follow on from those that took place in Bamako, focus on […]
Cape Town — Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere has become the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honour, in its more than 40-year history. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso, and based in Berlin, Germany, the architect (known as Francis Kere) empowers and transforms communities through the process of architecture, according […]
Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor. “I am hoping to change the paradigm, push people to dream and undergo risk. It […]
The new leader of Burkina Faso, Colonel Paul Henri Damiba appointed his new cabinet on March 5, 2022. Among the appointees is Albert Ouédraogo, who is the country’s new prime minister. The new 25-member cabinet also sees the return of Brigadier-General Aimé Barthélémy Simporé, who left government after an incident in which shots were fired […]
The head of Burkina Faso’s junta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, signed a charter on Tuesday, putting in place a three-year transition period before the country holds elections. The text was signed a little over a month after he led a coup to overthrow the country’s elected leader. The charter states: “The duration of the transition […]
Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso — A national conference in Burkina Faso has adopted a charter that will allow a junta that seized power in the West African state in January to lead a 3-year transition, a Reuters reporter said. The conference approved the charter, which was later signed by junta leader Lt. Colonel Henri-Paul Damiba in the […]
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in three weeks after leading a coup that toppled the government. Observers and neighbors have remained concerned but reserved about the developments. Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, a military strongman, was sworn in as Burkina Faso’s president Wednesday, three weeks after leading a coup that toppled the elected government of […]
France’s armed forces say 40 militants have been killed during an operation in Burkina Faso. The targeted group is believed to be responsible for deadly attacks in Benin. The French army on Saturday said it killed 40 militants in Burkina Faso. According to a statement posted on Twitter, the militants were “neutralized” during a joint […]