DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The military junta in Burkina Faso on Monday declared the United Nations resident coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak as “persona non grata” over an official U.N. report that ...

Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly passed a law on September 1, 2025, that makes consensual same-sex relations ...

Burkina Faso’s parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality. Offenders will face two to five years in prison.

Reacting to the adoption by the Transitional Legislative Assembly of the new Persons and Family Code, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We ...