Military-ruled Burkina Faso on Saturday suspended "all distribution methods" of Le Monde daily after an article on a deadly jihadi attack in the north, in the latest measure against a French media organization. "The government has decided to suspend all ...

After coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, the latest putsch, in Niger, has forced France to examine what lingering influence it has in the region, as its former colonies reject its legacy. President Ebrahim Raisi, who has been reinforcing Iran's ties across ...

A very bad piece of news has struck the Pharaohs and Manchester City, with Omar Marmoush leaving the field due to an injury, apparently hurt in the knee. The Manchester City forward collapsed after a tackle from an opposing player and immediately requested to be substituted. It remains to be seen how severe his injury is.

Lawmakers in the country's unelected parliament have approved fines and prison sentences for persons convicted. Homosexuality is illegal in around 30 African countries, but not until now in Burkina Faso,

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Uncertainty continues to surround the whereabouts of President Roch Kaboré after the Burkinabe leader was deposed in a coup over the weekend.

While the story of China in Africa dominates the news and the academic world, it has also succeeded in erasing what has become little known today: the fact that Taiwan was very active and present in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and provided development ...

In the latest blow to media freedom in Burkina Faso, the country’s transitional military authorities have expelled Agnès Faivre and Sophie Douce, two female journalists working for the French newspapers Libération and Le Monde. Both journalists ...

Illustrations, color plate Q (between pages 96 and 97). Tondiedo, a rock-art site dating back to the very end of the Iron Age, was discovered in the Markoye area of Burkina Faso in west Africa. A characteristic feature of this site is the distribution of ...

Resilience and creativity are deeply rooted in Sahelian societies. Today, every artistic project, every cultural initiative, is a direct response to the daily challenges and an act of social transformation.

Les récentes recherches ont démontré les difficultés de la définition des réalités ethniques qui ne recoupent pas forcément les critères habituellement utilisés que sont l'histoire, la culture, la langue, la généalogie, le territoire.